'Unprecedented pre-emptive strike': Trump's Alaska election suit hits overnight speed bump

Democrats moved quickly to fight the Trump administration’s lawsuit over Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. Their first filing doesn’t hold back.Mary Peltola’s campaign committee, Alaskans for Mary, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee asked a federal judge in Alaska late on Friday evening to let them join the case. The Justice Department filed the suit a day earlier, and President Donald Trump has said he ordered it.“In an unprecedented pre-emptive strike on democratic elections, the Department of Justice—acting on the President’s personal orders—demands that this Court enjoin the certification of the ongoing U.S. Senate election, but only if the President’s preferred candidate loses,” the filing says.“Alaskans, apparently, must elect Senator Dan S. Sullivan or the President will not let them elect anyone at all,” it adds.The lawsuit is about Daniel J. Sullivan, a candidate whose name nearly matches that of Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, Peltola’s main opponent. The DOJ wants...