Another decision in a courtroom is pending before sending a Nov. 5 election winner to the bench of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Friday evening, Judge Jefferson Griffin filed a motion for litigation to return from federal to state court,

Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs asked a federal judge to deny Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin’s request for a preliminary injunction in his election case. Riggs, a Democrat, leads Griffin, a Republican,

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,