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Alaska Election Gambit Shows Justice Dept. Has Bowed to Trump’s Demands
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With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.
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Alaska Election Gambit Shows Justice Dept. Has Bowed to Trump’s Demands
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