The case will instead go to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, where Griffin currently sits as a judge. He told The N&O he won’t participate in his own case.

A North Carolina Supreme Court decision refusing to further accelerate the appeals over an unsettled November election for a seat on the court means an official winner likely won't be finalized sooner,

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the state Board of Election's request to bypass the North Carolina Court of Appeals and review Appellate Court Judge Jefferson Griffin's legal effort to toss out tens of thousands of votes cast in the state's November Supreme Court race.

Republican State Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin wants to throw out 65,000 votes in his battle against incumbent Justice Allison Riggs because he said their registrations didn’t have key information.