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'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…

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