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A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South.

Attorneys for Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin appeared before a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel on Friday arguing to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in Griffin's race against Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs.

A Democratic lawmaker wants judicial elections in North Carolina determined by nonpartisan contests.

An appeals court judge who could hear Jefferson Griffin's protest over thousands of ballots in his bid for a seat on the state Supreme Court contributed to the GOP candidate's legal expense fund.

Some 60,000 North Carolinians’ ballots are being challenged by the Republican candidate for a state Supreme Court Justice seat. Due South learns who those voters are, and how they feel about their ballots being challenged.

Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails in his race against Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 734 votes, wants more than 60,000 ballots invalidated because of alleged incomplete voter registrations

Democratic state lawmakers who served in the military demanded that Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin abandon his attempt to invalidate thousands of ballots, including ones cast by military and overseas voters.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that North Carolina's disputed race for a seat on the state Supreme Court must be reviewed in state courts before the matter can go before a federal tribunal.

Contributors to Jefferson Griffin's legal expense fund include a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which could end up handling Griffin's lawsuit to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in his state Supreme Court race.

The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the uncertified race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court