Like Trump, Jefferson Griffin May Be One Vote Away From Overturning a State’s Election Result
North Carolina voters won’t forget how the judges charged with protecting their democracy handled this attempted election theft.

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North Carolina voters won’t forget how the judges charged with protecting their democracy handled this attempted election theft.
With Donald Trump back in the White House, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore — whether they know it or not.
Of the harms Trump can and will do over his next four years in office, the judges he appoints will have the most lasting effect.
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Most cases don’t make it to the Supreme Court, so who sits on our lower courts matters terribly.
It’s essential that we be able to correct the mistakes of our justice system when lives are on the line.
Think you can endure another four years of Donald Trump as president? How about another 40 years of Trump’s Supreme Court?
In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there have been huge health care consequences in the states that have banned abortion.
Our individual freedoms and rights are hanging on a thin wire, at the mercy of the corrupt, corporate-captured Supreme Court.
We have no choice as a country but to meet the moment and take required bold action to ensure our institutions meet the mandate they were given.
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