Jefferson Griffin is certainly consistent in his beliefs.

In college, he celebrated the “Lost Cause” myth of the Confederacy.

Now he champions the myth of his Lost Election.

Griffin lost his race for Supreme Court, just as the South lost the Civil War.

But he won’t accept his defeat, just as his Kappa Alpha fraternity at UNC wouldn’t accept the defeat of the Old South, secession and slavery.

The AP uncovered a photograph of a grinning Griffin “wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South.”

The photo wasn’t taken in the distant past – the ‘60s or the ‘80s.

It was 2001, when even some KAs at UNC questioned the tradition of “Old South” parties where “the Confederate battle flag was flown and fraternity brothers dressed in replica Confederate gray uniforms and their dates wore antebellum-style hoop skirts.”

AP reported, “During Griffin’s time in the fraternity, some in his chapter questioned the appropriateness of dressing up in Confederate uniforms for the ball. Griffin opposed abandoning the tradition, according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal. The uniforms stayed.”

The next year, Griffin was chapter President.

He claims now that he’s changed his views.

But he clearly hasn’t.

His effort to disenfranchise 60,000 North Carolina voters upholds the KA’s racist tradition.

As Thomas Mills points out in his excellent commentary, “while White voters made up almost 64% of the electorate, they make up only about 34% of the ballots Griffin is trying to disqualify.”

We need judges who honor the law, not defy it.

We need judges who wear judicial robes, not Confederate uniforms.