Hi, Team NC!
I’ve got a great event for you on Monday. I’ll be there, and really hope you can come!
Meet with NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and Cheri Beasley at the All In for NC monthly meeting!
At the first meeting of 2024, we'll be joined by NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, the youngest woman ever to serve on the court, who is up for a full term in November. Justice Riggs was a co-executive director and general counsel of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) before becoming a judge.
Riggs’s voting rights work over the last nearly 15 years at SCSJ has been focused on fighting for fair redistricting plans, fighting against voter suppression, and advocating for electoral reforms that would expand access to voting. She has litigated redistricting cases on behalf of State NAACP Conferences in Texas, Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. In 2018, she argued a Texas redistricting case in the U.S. Supreme Court, and in 2019, she argued a North Carolina partisan gerrymandering case in the same high court.Â
She will be joined in conversation with former Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court, Cheri Beasley - who is currently Sandra Day O'Connor Professor at Elon Law School and a partner at a Raleigh law firm. Â
Justice Beasley, a former public defender, served on NC courts at many levels from 1999 to 2020. She was the first Black woman ever to serve as Chief Justice. In 2022, she was the Democratic nominee for US Senate. Â
You can register here:
Meet NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs
Monday, January 22, 2024, 4-5 pm EST
Hope to see some of you there!
Jess
Hey for whoever is getting this, I cannot say enough good things about both of these wise women and how important it is that we keep Justice Riggs on our state Supreme Court. Sadly we Dems let Justice Beasley down in 2020 (she lost by just 400 votes, while Democratic candidates in multiple counties won by more votes than that). We cannot let that happen again this year with Justice Riggs. We need to spread the news far and wide about the implications of the judicial races!