BREAKING: Judge Richard Myers ruled on Monday that the North Carolina Supreme Court's handling of the state supreme court election there violated the U.S. Constitution.

Under today’s order from Myers, a Trump appointee, the win for Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, that was the result of the initial election count is to be certified.

“This consolidated action concerns an attempt to change the rules of the game after it had been played. The court cannot countenance that strategy, … which implicates the very integrity of the election and offends the law's basic interest in finality,” Myers wrote in conclusion.

Today's ruling is stayed for 7 days to allow Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican who challenged Riggs, to appeal "if he so chooses."

The next steps if Griffin so chooses would be an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, then en banc there, or to the U.S. Supreme Court.