The MeidasTouch Podcast
Justice Allison Riggs Responds to Court Certification Ruling
Wed, 07 May 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on a stunning ruling by the federal district court in North Carolina in the case where MAGA GOP Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin tried to change the rules and steal a Supreme Court seat from Justice Allison Riggs when she won the election 6 months ago in November 2024. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding the North Carolina Supreme Court race?
We've got major news out of North Carolina, folks, where the Supreme Court race back from November was thrown into turmoil, where the MAGA Republican candidate for the Supreme Court seat, Jefferson Griffin, refused to concede after losing in multiple recounts to Justice Allison Riggs, who was on the Supreme Court, the Democratic-backed candidate, Justice Allison Riggs.
At every step, the MAGA Republican candidate, Jefferson Griffin, tried to challenge existing votes that were already counted. He tried to disenfranchise people. He tried to literally steal votes from people. This had been a six-month ordeal where the votes of the people were just not being counted.
It went through the state court system, from the lower level court to their court of appeals to the Supreme Court. where ultimately a subset of votes was ordered by the North Carolina Supreme Court to be recounted through this process, which was counter to what the will of the people were who actually voted. So after the Supreme Court in North Carolina made that ruling,
Separately, Justice Allison Riggs was bringing an action in federal court. And we just got a very important federal court ruling in this entire saga from, of all people, a Trump appointed judge in North Carolina, a judge by the name of Judge Richard Myers. And you got to hand it to the guy. He followed the law. He put politics aside. And U.S.
District Court Judge Richard Myers ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for the Democratic Supreme Court Justice Alison Riggs and rejected all of the MAGA candidate Jefferson Griffin's election protests. The judge did stay the order for one week so that Jefferson Griffin may appeal.
And knowing Jefferson Griffin, I'm sure he's going to do what Jefferson Griffin does. But when you take a look at this order by the district court judge, you get a Trump appointed judge. I don't even like saying Trump appointed judge, Obama appointed judge. But I think I think it is still a notable factor here. Here's what the judge wrote. This consolidated action.
concerns an attempt to change the rules of the game after it had been played. The court cannot countenance that strategy, permitting parties to upend the set rules of an election after the election has taken place. can only produce confusion and turmoil, which threatens to undermine public confidence in federal courts, state agencies, and elections themselves.
Accordingly, the court finds as follows one retroactive invalidation of absentee ballots cast by overseas military and civilian voters violates those voters' substantive due process rights. That's one of the things Jefferson Griffin wanted to happen. The cure process violates equal protection rights of overseas military and civilian voters.
And three, the lack of any notice or opportunity for eligible voters to contest their mistaken designation as never residents violates procedural due process and represents an unconstitutional burden. on the right to vote. Therefore, the judge ordered that the win for Justice Allison Riggs be certified. Let's bring in Justice Allison Riggs to respond to this ruling. Where are we at?
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Chapter 2: How did Jefferson Griffin challenge the election results?
What are you talking? You're throwing out our votes for our daughter? What do you mean? Here, just watch this video. This is for our viewers.
Yeah, well, we were thoroughly shocked to find out there even was a list and then to find out that we were on the list when we have voted successfully for 50 years. Is that an issue?
And combined, we have voted religiously for over 100 years, the two of us together. And this is the first time a ballot's ever been challenged. And I know that my daughter had spoken a lot about recognizing voter suppression when she sees it. I can tell you. This does not feel like election integrity.
Personally, this feels like voter suppression when it involves us and a very important election to us personally. It involves our daughter.
Well, I'll tell you, Justice Riggs. So my parents were very proud when I graduated Georgetown Law. They were a little bit curious when I became a podcaster, but I got them back on my team now and they're proud again. But I can only imagine you got proud parents. You're a Supreme Court justice in the state of North Carolina. They go out to vote for you in the election.
And then they find out that and they're going to be so careful. How could you be more careful than the parents voting for that? I bet you they looked at it. They took photos of it. They mounted it on the wall. I bet you it was one. And their vote was one that was initially going to be thrown out. So if it happened to them, just imagine what's happening overseas and everybody else.
So I'll let you address that. But just as we wrap up, where do we go from here? What happens next?
Yeah. I mean, I have always represented voters in fights to make sure that their right to vote counted. I was a civil rights and voting rights attorney before joining the bench. And my parents' experience only reminded me of what I already knew, that there are real people at the at the other end of these attempts to put personal political ambition over the rule of law and the Constitution.
I put my hand on a Bible two years ago, raised my hand and swore an oath to uphold the federal and state constitutions. It's been my honor to fight for North Carolina voters.
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