Alaska officials ask judge to deny DOJ’s ‘impossible’ demand to set aside ballots
Topics: Alaska PoliticsJoe Biden
4 outlets (NBC News, PBS NewsHour, ABC News and Fox News) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 4 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “Alaska”, “aside”, “demand”, “ballots”. Distinct wording: NBC News uses “impossible'” and “officials”; Fox News uses “prosecutions” and “precedent”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- NBC News reports: “The Republican-led state government urged the judge to dismiss the “unwarranted federal interference” in the Senate race.”
- PBS NewsHour reports: “The Department of Justice on Friday added a request that the judge separate all ballots showing votes for the second Dan Sullivan until it can be determined whether voters were fooled into wasting …”
- ABC News reports: “Alaska’s Republican-run state government is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that st…”
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- NBC News: Alaska officials ask judge to deny DOJ’s ‘impossible’ demand to set aside ballots
- PBS NewsHour: Attorneys for Alaska say 'meritless' Trump demand to set aside Senate ballots 'not even possible'
- ABC News: Attorneys for Alaska say 'meritless' Trump demand to set aside Senate ballots 'not even possible'
- Fox News: Trump prosecutions under Biden set precedent for DOJ’s Alaska ‘Decoy Dan’ probe, ex-FEC chair says
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