Rusty Jacobs
Voting and Election Integrity ReporterRusty Jacobs is ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s Voting and Election Integrity Reporter. Rusty started his reporting career in the 1990s at a weekly newspaper in Connecticut. He has been with ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ since 2001—taking a slight detour from 2007 to 2017 to attend law school at UNC Chapel Hill and then serve as an Assistant District Attorney for Wake County. In his spare time, Rusty plays in a Grateful Dead cover band.
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Attorney Craig Schauer, who represents Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, went before a Wake County judge earlier this week without opposing counsel present to get an order blocking certification of the election. Griffin is trying to have more than 60,000 ballots invalidated in his race to unseat incumbent Democratic state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. -
One of the high court's conservative justices dissented from an order blocking certification of an election in which a Democratic incumbent justice leads a GOP challenger. -
attorneys for the state elections board have filed an appeal with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to reverse a federal judge's order remanding the case to North Carolina's Supreme Court
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Federal judge punts disputed judicial race back to North Carolina's conservative state Supreme CourtRepublican candidate Jefferson Griffin is getting what he wanted: To have the heavily conservative state Supreme Court decide whether to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots and possibly reverse his electoral loss to unseat North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs
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Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin trails Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs in their race for a seat on the state Supreme Court, but Griffin says that very tribunal should handle his effort to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots
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Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is trying to convince a federal district court judge that a legal battle over his disputed race belongs in state court.
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I love music. And listening to — and seeing — it performed live can lift one's spirits, stir emotions, and bolster your faith in humanity. -
Attorneys for the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin have asked a federal judge to expedite a hearing on Griffin's effort to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots in his contest with Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs
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Democrat Josh Stein has already sued to block legislative Republicans from taking away his powers -
Judge Richard E. Myers II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina has denied Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin's request for a temporary restraining order to block certification of his electoral loss to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs in the race for a seat on the state Supreme Court
