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Democracy Docket
@democracydocket.com

NEW: The DOJ sued to block certification of the results in Alaska's Senate race if a Democrat wins. Experts are already saying its argument "is one of the worst ones" seen — and that's saying a lot for a department that has gone 0-26 in its voter data effort. https://demdock.com/3WJRBXm

democracydocket.com‘One of the worst ones I've ever seen’: Legal experts eviscerate DOJ's Alaska lawsuitA growing chorus of legal experts, democracy advocates and lawmakers say the Justice Department's latest lawsuit against Alaska is pure bunk.

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planetinperil.bsky.social
@planetinperil.bsky.social

“It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.” ― Thomas Paine,

Bill's son, Bob
@bobyost.bsky.social

The administration argument in at least one past case was that no lawsuit should be filed if concrete harm had not yet occurred to a plaintiff, In other words, no preemptive lawsuits allowed.