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Trump Thinks Alaskans Could Vote for the Wrong Sullivan. What Can the DOJ Do?
October 26, 2026
Derek Muller, a professor of election law at the University of Notre Dame, wrote in a blog post after the filing that the proposed investigation is “essentially impossible.” But succeeding is not the point, he continues. “The legal claim is so absurdly thin, there’s essentially no likelihood of success,” he wrote, adding that the real purpose of litigation is to signal to the press and public that the Trump Administration is “ready” if the result goes against the GOP’s interests in Alaska.
Associated Press
To make AI morally good, tech companies turn to religion. Some say it's not so simple
October 26, 2026
Paolo Carozza, a member of the independent Meta Oversight Board and a legal expert who studies Catholic social thought and technology, worries that in the quest for accumulation, there is potential for a given tradition's defining characteristics to be lost — in effect, homogenized into something that pulls toward the middle or even favors Western religions. “Any living, sophisticated tradition over time is capable of interacting with others outside of it and absorbing some new knowledge and growing. But it does so in this organic way," he said. “What AI, I think, often does and potentially does, is not in an organic way, but in a way that just throws it all together, mixes it all up, and therefore makes sense of none of it.”
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DOJ sues to block Alaska Senate results if GOP incumbent loses
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October 26, 2026
Derek Muller, law professor, University of Notre Dame
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.
Associated Press
Trump’s administration sues to block a possible Democratic win in the Alaska US Senate race
October 23, 2026
Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the lawsuit would likely only kick in if Republicans narrowly lost the Alaska Senate race and that it probably would not survive long.
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