FLIP the NC Court: A Launch Party for 2024
*** PLEASE NOTE: This is a free event, but registration is required, and we expect to reach capacity!***
FLIP NC is returning from an extended hiatus with a big announcement: We’re back, and we’re focused on the courts! (Read more about our 2024 plan on our blog.)
Join us on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 6 pm at Motorco in downtown Durham for our 2024 launch party. We’ll lay out our strategy for electing progressives to the courts this year and why it’s so critical to the future of our state, hear from our state’s two Democratic Supreme Court associate justices about the role the courts play in our democracy and what’s at stake this November, and mingle with fellow progressives. Sen. Natalie Murdock will speak about the importance and effectiveness of direct voter outreach and how the gerrymandered nature of the legislature makes the judicial branch all the more essential. (Read more about all of our esteemed speakers below.) Let’s work to win races from the mountains to the coast – and up and down the ballot – this November!
Register here!
The launch party will include time to get a drink and socialize with other progressives before hearing from FLIP NC's leaders as well as Justice Earls, Justice Riggs, and Sen. Murdock.
Fired up? Ready to help flip NC blue? See you at Motorco for the kickoff!
About Justice Anita Earls:
Earls was elected associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2018.
Earls was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 to serve as deputy assistant attorney general in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice. From 2000 to 2003, she directed the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Returning to North Carolina in 2003, she joined Julius Chambers at the UNC Center for Civil Rights as Director of Advocacy.
In 2007, Earls founded the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a non-profit legal advocacy organization. She served as its executive director for 10 years, litigating voting rights and other civil rights cases.
About Justice Allison Riggs:
Riggs was appointed associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court by Gov. Roy Cooper in September 2023. She is filling the remaining term of Justice Michael Morgan, upon his retirement.
Prior to her appointment to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2022, Riggs served as the co-executive director for programs and chief counsel for voting rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Over 14 years, she had the privilege of advocating for those who had been marginalized and disenfranchised, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in several landmark redistricting cases.
About Sen. Natalie Murdock:
In 2020, Murdock was appointed by Gov. Cooper to serve as the NC Senator for District 20, which encompasses Durham and Chatham counties. She was elected later that year, earning 100,000 votes and making her the first woman of color under 40 to be elected to the NCGA. She hit the ground running as a freshman senator, filing over 100 bills that range from supporting Black maternal health and expanding health care access for all to providing greater access to the ballot.
Murdock has over 10 years of experience in government affairs, transportation, agriculture, environmental affairs, and economic development. As the principal and owner of Murdock Anderson Consulting, she shapes the brand identity of companies and nonprofits. Most notably, she managed the NC Freedom Park Project, the first African-American Park in the heart of North Carolina’s capital. She serves as the LEAD 2030 Director for Women’s Democracy Lab, providing financial security to women of color serving in state legislatures so they can continue to serve.