Democrats, voting-rights groups challenge Trump's bid to block Alaska Senate certification
Lawsuits filed by candidate Mary Peltola and a voters' rights group challenge Trump's preemptive efforts to block a Democratic Senate victory in Alaska.
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Lawsuits filed by candidate Mary Peltola and a voters' rights group challenge Trump's preemptive efforts to block a Democratic Senate victory in Alaska.
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.
One of them is a Republican senator and ally of the president. The other is a retired schoolteacher whom Republicans accuse of being a Democratic plant to siphon away votes.
Bộ Tư pháp Mỹ đang tìm cách ngăn Alaska xác nhận kết quả bầu cử Thượng viện trong trường hợp ứng viên Cộng hòa bị đánh bại.
US government seeks to delay Alaska Senate result over concerns about two candidates with the same name.
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The intervention by a president to launch a preemptive challenge against a possible election result casts a new shadow over the midterms.
Alaskassa on ehdolla kaksi republikaaniehdokasta, joilla on lähes identtiset nimet.
Justisdepartementet ønsker stanse godkjenningen av valgresultatet i Alaska hvis republikaneren Dan Sullivan taper valget med små marginer.
Le président américain a dit avoir demandé à son administration de bloquer la validation des résultats en cas de succès démocrate, arguant que la présence d’un candidat homonyme au sénateur républicain sortant pouvait induire en erreur les électeurs.
President Trump is calling into question the integrity of the upcoming Alaska Senate vote, asking the Justice Department to block future certification over possible confusion around the identities of two candidates who share the same name. Nancy Cordes has more.
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President Trump's Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to block the certification of Alaska's Senate race if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. It argues the presence of another GOP candidate, named Daniel J. Sullivan, could create confusion for voters and benefit Democrats. CBS news legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks it all down.
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly 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 corresponde
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Nog voordat ze überhaupt hebben plaatsgevonden, dreigen de komende verkiezingen in de VS al een staartje te krijgen. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie heeft een rechtszaak aangespannen om de uitslag in Alaska te kunnen blokkeren. President Trump zegt dat de rechtszaak er is gekomen op zijn verzoek. Op het stembiljet in Alaska hebben twee kandidaten vri
In Alaska konkurrieren zwei Republikaner mit dem Nachnamen Sullivan um einen Sitz im Senat. US-Präsident Trump gefällt das nicht: Er befürchtet Stimmverluste.
Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie is in opdracht van president Donald Trump een rechtszaak begonnen tegen Alaska. De president wil niet dat de staat in november een eventuele verkiezingswinst van de Democraten goedkeurt voordat is onderzocht of het stembiljet voor verwarring heeft gezorgd.
Kandidiert Dan J. Sullivan nur, um Dan S. Sullivan die Stimmen zu stehlen? Davon geht offenbar die US-Regierung aus. Um das zu verhindern, hat das Justizministerium nun rechtliche Schritte eingeleitet.
President Donald Trump took credit for the action amid growing concerns the US government could meddle in midterm races.
Candidates’ similar names could ‘taint’ the result, argues US Justice Department
<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/M-0-gg/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/23/a4d3f70c-d594-42d3-b59d-9a28f627d709.jpg">Mit der Klage soll verhindert werden, dass die Wahlergebnisse bestätigt werden
The Justice Department is suing Alaska election officials to prevent them from certifying Senate race results if GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan loses next month.
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.
President Trump says he directed the DOJ to preemptively file a lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
The Trump administration is suing to prevent the Alaska Senate election from being certified if GOP Sen. Daniel Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola because of the other Dan Sullivan who is on the ballot.
There are two Dan Sullivans on the ballot in the Senate race in Alaska. The DOJ says that fact could help Democratic nominee Mary Peltola defeat both of them.
The lawsuit centers on one of the president's longstanding complaints in the Senate race — the presence of a second candidate named Dan Sullivan who Republicans fear could siphon away votes from the incumbent in what's likely to be a photo-finish contest with Democrat Mary Peltola.
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A massive landslide in Alaska triggered the second-highest tsunami ever recorded, sending water and debris 1,580 feet up a mountainside just hours after tourists visited the area. Scientists discovered that the disaster was preceded by several warning signs, including rapid glacier retreat, heavy rainfall, and thousands of tiny seismic tremors. As glaciers r
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