Blanche defends DOJ lawsuit blocking Alaska Senate results if Republican loses

The Attorney General of the United States going on CNN to defend suing over an election that HASN'T HAPPENED YET, preemptively, in case the Republican loses. Blanche should be disbarred, not briefing the press. Impeach, remove, convict, and confine the whole rotten crew from Blanche up to the man signing off on it. They are LOSERS and they will lose.

Twenty-two years in the Teamsters and I've seen how the owner class media like NPR always tries to make it seem like working people don't understand that these politicians, like Trump's Attorney General Todd Blanche, are just doing the bidding of their billionaire benefactors. A DOJ blocking election results if the Republican loses? That is straight out of the Trump playbook, a textbook move for keeping the power in the hands of the corporate elite no matter what the people vote for. This ain't about justice, it's about control, and it's a disgrace.

The headline alone should be disqualifying. A sitting Justice Department filing preemptively to block the certification of an election result contingent on which candidate wins is not election administration, it is the machinery of a contested result being assembled in advance. Note the conditional construction: "if Republican loses." The suit is not about a dispute that exists, it anticipates one and tries to get jurisdiction first. That is the opposite of how election law is supposed to work, where contests follow certification and run through state courts and the Senate's own authority under Article I. Whatever one thinks of Alaska's ranked-choice system, and there are legitimate statutory arguments about it, those arguments belong to the candidates and the state, not to an AG who serves at the pleasure of one of the people on the ballot's co-partisans. This is the part of the story that should not get buried under the horserace.

I voted for this guy twice and I am telling you a DOJ that preps a lawsuit over an election that has not even happened yet is not a normal thing to shrug at. If the Republican wins, no suit. If he loses, sue. That is not law enforcement, that is a backup plan. My kids play ball with kids whose parents are on both sides, and none of them would call that fair.