Billy Corriher is the state courts manager for People's Parity Project and a longtime advocate for fair courts and progressive judges. He worked at the Center for American Progress from 2012 to 2017. Billy has helped fight Republican attempts to pack the courts in his native North Carolina with judges who would limit the rights of workers and voters, and he has worked with progressive courts advocates around the country. He also worked as a freelance journalist whose work appeared in Slate, Facing South, Governing, ThinkProgress, and other outlets. In 2021, Billy released a book titled Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina’s Courts. As a Democracy Docket contributor, Billy writes about voting and election state court cases in North Carolina and across the country.
While Griffin’s concession is great news for voters — and fair elections — Republicans have other maneuvers up their sleeve to undermine democracy. For nearly a decade, they’ve been plotting to take control of state elections — and they may finally have succeeded.
Nearly three million voters chose to keep Justice Allison Riggs in power. They rejected Jefferson Griffin’s partisan Republican campaign.
North Carolinians must show up at the courthouse on Friday to remind Judges Gore, Hampson and Tyson that they are accountable to the voters.
North Carolina voters won’t forget how the judges charged with protecting their democracy handled this attempted election theft.
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