The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state’s election on Monday.
The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state’s election on Monday, violating both state and federal law to grant Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cynical, last-minute removal from the ballot. Itswill compel election administrators to destroy nearly 3 million already-printed ballots that featured Kennedy’s name and redesign 2,348 different ballot styles across the state to accommodate the eleventh-hour change.
election officials to mail ballots to service members and others living overseas by Sept. 6. North Carolina’s state elections director testified that redesigning the ballot would take 18 to 23 days. So removing Kennedy’s name from the ballot—then designing and printing substitutes—would require election officials to violate state law. Even if these officials had begun removing Kennedy’s name the moment thatYet the North Carolina Supreme Court still sided with Kennedy.
It’s telling that Riggs took the unusual step of inviting the public to condemn not just the majority’s decision, but its integrity as a judicial body. North Carolina’s justices are elected, and Riggs ison November’s ballot for an eight-year term against Republican Jefferson Griffin. Over the past four years, Republicans flipped four seats on the court, consigning Democrats to a 5–2 minority. If Griffin unseats Riggs, then Earls will be the last remaining liberal.
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