Trump says he ordered the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Alaska’s US Senate race
The Justice Department says the ballot mix-up could mislead voters and alter a tight race decided by ranked choice voting.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump confirmed he ordered the Department of Justice to sue Alaska, seeking to block certification of the U.S. Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.
- The federal lawsuit centers on a second candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot, whom Republicans contend is a Democratic plant designed to siphon votes from the incumbent.
- Associate U.S. Attorney General Stanley Woodward signed the late Thursday filing, which asks a court to enjoin final certification pending an investigation into whether votes were intended for Senator Sullivan.
- Democrat Mary Peltola called the legal action "just flagrant, flagrant corruption," while Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski criticized the intervention, asserting Alaska has already handled the ballot issue appropriately.
- Legal experts expect the lawsuit to be dismissed next month, as the U.S. Constitution grants states primary authority over elections and the statute does not authorize the Justice Department to enjoin certification.
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Donald Trump challenges Alaska Senate trace
With the US midterm elections less than two weeks away, concerns are growing over whether President Donald Trump would accept a major Republican defeat. Trump has called for legal action to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses to his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, arguing that another candidate with the same name on the ballot could confuse voters. Our Washington correspondent Fraser Ja…
GOP senator blows Trump-ordered election lawsuit out of water: 'Should never have filed'
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has a blunt message for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department over its lawsuit in her home state’s Senate race: stay out of it.“Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot,” Murkowski wrote on X Friday. “The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit."She atta…
US President Donald Trump has said he has personally ordered the Justice Department to file a lawsuit to block the certification of the results of the Alaska Senate election if Republican Senator Dan Sullivan loses. "I'm the one who said, 'Do it,'" Trump told reporters on Friday upon arriving in Florida. The US Justice Department filed the lawsuit on Thursday in a federal court in Alaska, about ten days before the November 3 election. It seeks …
This Justice Department official hustles to the forefront of Trump’s legal agenda
By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said on Friday he wanted an election-related lawsuit to be filed in Alaska. The man to do it for him was Stanley Woodward, the associate attorney general. Holding the third highest ranking job at the Justice Department and having never appeared in federal court
Trump says he ordered suit to block Alaska Senate results if GOP loses
President Trump is making a final push to help Republicans maintain control of Congress as some of the most closely watched races remain competitive. But the battle for the Senate is also playing out in court. In Alaska, the Trump administration sued to potentially block certification of the election if the Republican incumbent loses. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.
Trump Ordered Justice Department to Intervene in Alaska
“President Trump said on Friday that he directed the Justice Department to block certification of the coming Senate election in Alaska if the Republican incumbent were to lose by a narrow margin,” the New York Times reports. “The highly unusual move heightens concerns from election officials and Democrats about Mr. Trump’s efforts to undermine the midterm elections, and at least one election expert said he expected the courts to reject the lawsu…
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