Justice Allison Riggs
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
My website is RiggsForOurCourts.com. R-I-G-G-S-F-O-R-O-U-R-C-O-U-R-T-S.com. Riggs For Our Courts. You can search me. I'm on every social media platform. If you search Alison Riggs or Riggs For Our Courts is my campaign name. You can find me. We are going to be sending regular updates. We're going to let people know what's happening, what they can expect.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
I certainly need people's financial support. This is a war of attrition that my opponent and his allies are waging against me and voters, and I've spent $1.2 million already on legal bills, and I've got a I will not stop fighting. And every dollar helps me not only fight this fight in court, but get this message out so that we understand that we have to win this fight now.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
Just like we just like Demo. Little D, democracy, Democrat, people who cared about democracy won this fight in 22 and in 2020. We have to win this fight now because our democracy cannot survive if voters don't ultimately get to decide who represents them. And so really just stay stay connected with my campaign, stay connected with what's happening in the legal fight.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And I'm so grateful for you in this platform lifting up what we're what we're fighting down here.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
Thank you.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
Well, thank you so much for having me today. It's such an honor to get to speak to your audience. Tomorrow is five months since Election Day. That's five months in which over 65,000, really it's over 68,000 North Carolina voters have felt stuck and scared. Voters like my parents, who did everything right, did everything that was asked of them, have never had issues voting before.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And they don't know what's going to happen to their vote because of this protracted litigation. I, before joining the bench, was a civil rights attorney. I focused on voting rights. So this is an area of law that I know well. And I can tell you that what my opponent seeks to do by tossing ballots, like my parents, my dad served 30 years in the military, including deployment in wartime.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And he used his military ID to register to vote, brought all the right documents. My mom used her driver's license, showed her driver's license when she went to vote this year to vote for me amongst other people. And she does not understand, and most people don't, why a woman who showed her driver's license number is being challenged because her driver's
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
voter file allegedly is lacking a driver's license number. She says to me, I showed them that. And it's really hard and my heart breaks because I know that there are tens of thousands of people across North Carolina, like my parents, who are not political activists. They're not politicians. They just are doing their civic duty, going out to be heard.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And what I am doing now, I am fighting to make sure that the will of North Carolina voters is respected. I am fighting to make sure that the precious fundamental right to vote is protected in this state, because not just because of my background and my commitment to this
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
important right, but because I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to God that I would defend our state and federal constitution and the rights protected therein. And so I am trying to make sure that folks know that I never thought this fight was going to be easy. I was a civil rights attorney. I understand what a tough fight looks like.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
I knew that this was going to be a long, hard fight, but I need people to know that what's happening in North Carolina matters across the country. What my opponent and his allies are trying to do here is what they tried to in 2020 and 2022 and failed to do, which is stop the certification of election, overturn election results that they don't like.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And if they succeed here, if they succeed in North Carolina, it is like dropping a match in a dry forest and we will not be able to contain the spread. So I know that this fight is about more than North Carolina. It's more than my seat and my oath. It is about the very soul of our democracy.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And I will not stop standing up for voters and standing in the way of any politician that tries to take the power away from the people.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
Yeah, this is why I'm so glad you took the time to break down the case. We're in state court right now in the system in which I serve. I think that this case is and so today's decision, Friday's decision, the decision of the Court of Appeals is deeply misinformed. I will promptly appeal it.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And this is going to work its way through the state court system, but I ultimately believe that this matter is going to get resolved in federal court, because there are federal laws that protect the rights of voters to vote, even if an administrative record is missing some information. There are laws on the books that ensure military voters can vote, and to be clear,
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
My opponent is and the Court of Appeals ruling today would disenfranchise 5500 military overseas voters deployed service members and in only four. of North Carolina's 100 counties. So my opponent didn't challenge all of the 32,000 military voters. We use the acronym UACAVA. He didn't challenge all 32,000 of those voters.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
He picked four of the most democratic counties in the state and challenged 5,500 voters in those counties. And so I need voters to know just how problematic and cynical this legal strategy is and that I will not give an inch. I will take this to federal court. I will take it all the way up to the United States Supreme Court if I need to.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
But we need people to know, one, that this is going to take six years. nine, maybe 12 months to resolve. This is not going to end anytime soon. And I understand how hard it is for people to deal with this kind of stuff when the markets are crashing and you turn on the national news and your blood pressure rises. There's a lot of outrage fatigue right now. I need people to sign up to
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
Follow what's going on in my case. Sign up on my website, rigsforourcourts.com. Follow me on social media. Stay on top of this. There's going to be a lot of developments in this case in the next few weeks, but also it's not going to end. And it's a lesson to all of us. We saw what happened in Wisconsin this week. Voters in Wisconsin said justice is not for sale.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
We want people of a strong constitutional conviction on the bench. It's why we fight so hard for our state courts in a world now where federal courts have said there's nothing we will do about extreme partisan gerrymandering, where federal courts have said, you know, a woman's access to health care is going to be decided state by state.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
So state legislature reviewed by state court, state courts matter more than ever. And we every year will continue to have these critical state court races. I am working now, as you mentioned, there's only one other Democrat on the North Carolina Supreme Court right now, Justice Anita Earls.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
She is up in 2026 and we are working on a multi-cycle plan to win back our courts for justice in 2028 before the next round of redistricting to make sure that North Carolina People in North Carolina can trust the people who don the robe, who sit on the bench to put them above power and politics, to center people and their rights, to defend institutions that are needed as a check and balance.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
I know we hear a lot, and especially from the legal community, about the importance of the rule of law and of our institutions. What we know from looking across the world is that democracies die when our institutions fail us, when our courts stop being willing to stand up. against political pressure and stand up and do what is right and what the law demands. And so we are fighting down here.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
It's a fight for the very soul of democracy. It is a fight that North Carolinians are ready to have. And they made a decision. Voters made a decision in November. They elected me to keep my seat for the next eight years. And I will make sure that the will of voters gets respected because if my opponent is long-term successful in this effort, elections will never end.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
And people in power will decide which elections they get to respect the results of and which they don't. You'll remember Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2024. No one is challenging the legitimacy of that election. And in fact, no one can point to one single voter who was not eligible to vote in this election whose vote is being challenged now. I can guarantee you my parents were.
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Justice Allison Riggs Reacts to Latest NC Court Ruling on Supreme Court Election
I can guarantee you every voter I have talked to on that list and we are doing work to reach all of them. They are all eligible voters and disenfranchising an eligible voter is never okay.