Ron Nelson

@ronels.bsky.social

Lawyer, Constitutionalist. Kansas Progressive. I think. Therefore, I am not a Republican.

Trump's DOJ flew all the way to Alaska to meddle in its election & a judge just tossed their bogus suit right back & GOP candidate Dan Sullivan says he'll accept the results win or lose Trump's DOJ has NO business meddling in state-run elections & NO legitimate reason to try - TN

Sen. Dan Sullivan says he will accept Alaska’s election results even if he doesn’t win

The Justice Department has preemptively sued over the presence on the ballot of another Dan Sullivan.

washingtonpost.com

BREAKING: The DOJ appealed to the 9th Circuit a lower court ruling dismissing its legal effort to subvert the Alaska U.S. Senate election. The lawsuit is part of the Trump administration's attempt to interfere in states’ constitutional power to administer elections.

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The Trump regime's lawsuit seeking to stop certification of Alaska's Senate election results if its preferred candidate lost pending an undefined investigation into the sacred, secret ballot predictably lost. But that should give you no comfort: The fact is, it asked. My thoughts buff.ly/ZGYzCgg

Rising This Week: The sacred, secret ballot

A federal judge just rejected Trump’s election interference scheme in Alaska, but the lawsuit itself is chilling.

buff.ly

NEWS: Record breaking early voting turnout with Democratic advantages across America. Make sure to vote! White House prepares for mass investigations, instructs officials to stop putting things in writing. Trump's efforts to interfere in Alaska fail in court. Trump makes more weird noises.

NEWS: Democrats Shatter Early Vote Records Trump White House Prepares for Mass Investigations, Alaska Lawsuit Thrown Out

Good evening.

aaronparnas.substack.com

Scroll back through this thread to see everything, but Trump admin stay requests are now pending, and opposition filed, at both the district court and Ninth Circuit to block a broad TRO relating to DOJ/DHS threats against "state or local elections officials or workers." SEIU is lead plaintiff.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d ago

The SEIU's opposition to DOJ's Ninth Circuit request for a stay of the TRO was filed at 9:07p PT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... They argue, in part, that the Trump admin's stay request relies on "misrepresentations regarding ... the nature of their threats to state and local elections."

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................1
BACKGROUND .............................................................................................3
1. Defendants’ Development and Use of Lists of Purported NonCitizens.....................………………………………………………….3
2. Defendants’ Threats Against Election Officials and Workers ...............7
3. Procedural History ...............................................................................15
4. Defendants’ Stay Motion .....................................................................17
ARGUMENT.................................................................................................22
I. Defendants Have Not Established Irreparable Injury..........................23
II. Defendants Are Unlikely to Succeed on the Merits of Their Appeal
…………………………………………………………………….29
A.This Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over the Non-Appealable TRO ........29
B. The District Court Correctly Determined that Defendants’ Conduct
Likely Exceeds Their Authority Under the Elections Clause and
Violates the Tenth Amendment........................................................33
C. The District Court Correctly Determined that Defendants’ Conduct
Likely Violates Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act ........................39
1. Section 11(b) Provides a Private Right of Action........................40
2. Section 11(b)’s Prohibitions Apply Equally to Federal Agents as
to All Other Persons.....................................................................45
3. The Record Amply Demonstrates a Section 11(b) Violation ......51
III. All Equitable Factors Weigh Against a Stay....................................55
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................57