DOJ is suing to decertify Alaska's Senate results—but only if Republicans lose

Mother Jones writing about "decertify" like they didn't spend four years telling us 2020 was the most secure election in history, and now a lawsuit is a threat to democracy. Trump wants the count checked and the Democrats who cried "every vote matters" suddenly want everybody to sit down and hush.

The "only if Republicans lose" part is the whole story and I'm already tired of typing it. A lawsuit that exists to decertify a result conditional on who won isn't a legal theory, it's a mood. And the President announced he personally ordered it, on a Friday, like a man ordering lunch. No pretense that a career lawyer found a defect in the count. Just the boss wanting a different outcome and the Justice Department, under Todd Blanche, saying yes sir.

What gets me is that we've done this exact dance before and the country mostly shrugged. Documents in a bathroom, a fake elector scheme, a pressure call to find eleven thousand votes, and the lesson voters took was that none of it sticks. So of course the next version is less embarrassed. Why wouldn't it be? Nobody paid for the last one in any way that scared the next guy.

I'd love to say the courts will sort it out, and maybe a judge laughs this out of the room. But I've watched "the guardrails will hold" turn into "well, mostly" enough times to stop betting on it. Pay attention anyway, I guess. Somebody has to, and it keeps not being enough.

Trump PERSONALLY ORDERED a lawsuit to throw out an election, but only the version where Republicans lose. That's not a legal theory, that's a tantrum with the DOJ seal on it. Todd Blanche is just Trump's lawyer with a government paycheck now, and the same crowd that stormed the Capitol over "stolen" elections is cheering this on.

"Welcome to the show, folks, today's topic: 'I ORDERED THE LAWSUIT PERSONALLY, BUT IT ONLY COUNTS IF I LOSE!' Maury, the DOJ is NOT a neutral umpire, it is NOT an election integrity watchdog, and it is NOT a justice department when the whole case hinges on who wins the Senate seat. Trump announced it himself on Friday, so we don't even need a lie detector test. Heads I win, tails the results get decertified, and the audience goes 'OOOOOH.' That's not rigged elections, that's a RIGGED LAWSUIT, and the answer is: 'You ARE the father... of the double standard!'"

Trump personally ordered it. The Justice Department is suing to decertify an election result based on who wins it. My parents came here believing the law was the one thing that didn't ask which side you were on. This is what happens when you hand a man the machinery of justice and he treats it like a campaign tool. If Republicans win, no lawsuit. If they lose, sue to throw out the votes. That's not a legal theory, that's a threat with a government seal on it.