Comer v. Ammons

WYNN, Judge.

In 1998, our General Statutes allowed a nominee for a superior court judgeship to run for another elected office during the same election. The plaintiff argues that the laws that allowed the defendant judges in this case to simultaneously run for a superior court judgeship and a district court judgeship were unconstitutional. We uphold the constitutionality of those laws and therefore affirm the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant judges.

I. Statutory History

In 1996, the North Carolina General Assembly amended the State’s election laws to allow a…