{"id":80464,"date":"2026-10-25T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/blanche-defends-dojs-pre-emptive-suit-to-block-alaska-senate-results-certification\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:55:43","slug":"blanche-defends-dojs-pre-emptive-suit-to-block-alaska-senate-results-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/blanche-defends-dojs-pre-emptive-suit-to-block-alaska-senate-results-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche defends DoJ\u2019s pre-emptive suit to block Alaska Senate results certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US attorney general calls CNN \u2018crazy\u2019 for suggesting Trump\u2019s attempt to overturn election could lead to January 6 repeat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/04\/sign-up-to-the-stakes-2026-your-weekly-guide-to-the-us-midterms\">Sign up for The Stakes 2026: your weekly guide to the US midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/todd-blanche\">Todd Blanche<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s attorney general, lashed out during an interview on Sunday while defending the justice department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/23\/trump-doj-lawsuit-alaska-senate-dan-sullivan\">pre-emptive lawsuit<\/a> to block certification of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alaska\">Alaska<\/a>\u2019s US Senate results if the GOP incumbent loses, calling a TV host\u2019s question \u201ccrazy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The testy repartee unfolded on CNN\u2019s State of the Union over the DoJ\u2019s unprecedented legal action, which alleges that there could be \u201cvoter confusion\u201d due to two candidates named Dan Sullivan on Alaska\u2019s ballot. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/23\/trump-doj-lawsuit-alaska-senate-dan-sullivan\">told reporters<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m the one that said do it\u201d when asked about the suit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/25\/todd-blanche-doj-lawsuit-alaska-senate-election-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US attorney general calls CNN \u2018crazy\u2019 for suggesting Trump\u2019s attempt to overturn election could lead to January 6 repeat Sign up for The Stakes 2026: your weekly guide to the US midterms Todd Blanche, Donald Trump\u2019s attorney general, lashed out during an interview on Sunday while defending the justice department\u2019s pre-emptive lawsuit to block certification &#8230; <a title=\"Blanche defends DoJ\u2019s pre-emptive suit to block Alaska Senate results certification\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/blanche-defends-dojs-pre-emptive-suit-to-block-alaska-senate-results-certification\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blanche defends DoJ\u2019s pre-emptive suit to block Alaska Senate results certification\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}