Candidates for NC Supreme Court highlight differing judicial philosophies

Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court, said his Democratic opponent Justice Allison Riggs, is advancing a liberal agenda through the courts and violating judicial conduct rules.

Griffin, who currently serves on the state’s Court of Appeals, said Riggs has made public statements about how she would rule on cases that could come before the court. “My opponent has staked out her position on issues. She has explicitly said how she would vote on cases, and these are all clear violations of our Code of Judicial Conduct,” Griffin said at a GOP judicial candidate forum on Monday.

“It’s been frustrating to watch as a citizen, as a jurist, as a lawyer, to watch how far she would take judicial elections down, and it goes back to that first point is because their ideas, their judicial philosophy, don’t work.”

Griffin, whose campaign website identifies him as an adherent to the controversial conservative judicial concepts of originalism and textualism, didn’t specifically mention which statements he was referring to. Last month, after Riggs released a campaign ad in which she said she will protect abortion rights, critics from her opponent’s camp charged that she was in violation of the state’s Judicial Code of Conduct.



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