Jefferson Griffin Should Be Disbarred (But Always Be A Civics Lesson)

He he lost his election last November and didn’t accept it. And the whole nation looked at North Carolina again scratching their heads.

And now finally after almost six months of theatrics:

In this latest decision in federal court, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers II stated,

“[T]his case concerns whether the federal Constitution permits a state to alter the rules of an election after the fact and apply those changes retroactively to only a select group of voters, and in so doing treat those voters differently than other similarly situated individuals. This case is also about whether a state may redefine its class of eligible voters but offer no process to those who may have been misclassified as ineligible.

“To this court, the answer to each of those questions is ‘no.”

Damn!

So what should be the consequences for public education in Griffin’s unfounded challenge? First, there is the civics lesson that he teaching our kids. He literally was angling to get the very court he lost an election for to overturn the voters’ will. That’s egregious enough.

The amount of time he wasted litigating these false claims will be hard to reimburse. The money that was spent by Riggs to defend her election win should be reimbursed with interest.

And Griffin should be disbarred from practicing law. If a man who was running for the state’s highest court did not know his actions blatantly disobeyed the law, then he is either too stupid to be on any bench or too easily prodded to be a political stooge to remain an unbiased judge.