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Trump's DOJ launches brazen legal bid to rig key Senate race
October 23, 2026
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told the AP that the quoted statute "simply doesn't let the Department of Justice enjoin certification."
The New York Times
The Bukeleization of Latin America Has Arrived
October 23, 2026
Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, a Salvadoran researcher who studies the Bukele model at the University of Notre Dame, said that two decades ago, the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, carried out what was widely regarded as one of the region’s most intense crackdowns, arresting roughly one in 1,000 Mexicans.
OSV News
Trump holds Oval Office meeting with some US bishops shortly before midterms
October 23, 2026
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who critically observes the modern American presidency, told OSV News that Trump “keeps reminding audiences that they should vote in the midterms as though he were on the ballot.
WSBT TV
22 Investigates: Priced off the field, the rising cost of youth sports
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October 23, 2026
Richard Sheehan, University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business Professor Emeritus says parents need to ask themselves a question; is it worth it for their child? "You look at something like just a softball bat that you can buy a reasonably good softball bat for $50 or $100, or you can buy one for $500 is the $500 one going to have an advantage. Yeah, it's going to have a little bigger sweet spot there's going to be a little better energy transfer to the ball but it's not going to turn you from a mediocre hitter into a great hitter it's going to be one or two percent advantage," says Sheehan
The Washington Post
DOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly loses
October 23, 2026
Still, election experts described the legal argument advanced by the department in the suit Thursday as “absurdly thin” and predicted the lawsuit would not withstand judicial scrutiny. University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller called the legal argument “one of the worst ones I’ve ever seen.”
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