Republican Lisa Murkowski says DOJ 'should never have filed' Trump-ordered suit to block Alaska result if Sullivan loses
President Donald Trump has openly claimed the move as his own, saying 'I'm the one that said "do it".' Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward filed the suit 12 days before Election Day. It targets Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired Petersburg teacher whose name nearly matches that of Senator Dan S. Sullivan. The Alaska Supreme Court had already upheld his place on the ballot in June.
Mary Peltola's campaign calls the suit an 'unprecedented pre-emptive strike on democratic elections'.
Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller called it 'one of the worst' legal arguments he had seen.
Common Cause is using Trump's own words in its bid to have the case thrown out.
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