Reject Trump’s ‘embarrassing’ Alaska lawsuit, voting experts tell court
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Official response and confirmed impact
The Trump administration took the highly unusual step of suing to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race before election day, claiming the presence of a longshot candidate with a name similar to Sen.
Dan Sullivan confused voters.
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Incident under investigation
Allowing the Trump administration to subvert the results of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race based on alleged voter confusion would create a dangerous precedent for federal interference in future elections, voting experts warned a federal appeals court.
Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and election scholars from UCLA School of Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project (SDP) each submitted amicus briefs Friday imploring the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit demanding Alaska not certify its Senate race if the Republican incumbent loses.
The lawsuit was part of the Trump administration’s wider attempts to subvert states’ constitutional authority to manage elections before midterms voting began.
