CNN
Video
October 30, 2026
Let's dig deeper on this with CNN Contributor Derek Muller. He's an election law scholar and a law professor at the University of Notre Dame. Derek, thanks for being with us.
Associated Press
October 29, 2026
Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, wrote that the Alaska lawsuit’s legal argument was “one of the worst ones I’ve ever seen.” He said that should reassure the public that Trump won’t be able to change election outcomes. “The notion that there’s going to be something systemic that’s going to thwart the will of the voters seems much more speculative,” he said. “A lot of the conduct seems impulsive rather than strategic and planned.”
PBS
October 29, 2026
Election law expert Derek Muller, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, wrote that the DOJ's legal argument "is one of the worst ones I've ever seen."
CNN
October 29, 2026
“It, I think, makes the Peltola campaign look bad,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, added. “I think it will adversely affect her in the eyes of some voters, but from litigation perspective, I think it really won’t affect things at this stage.”
The Independent
October 28, 2026
“Sometimes the narrative gets ginned up that there are all these noncitizens who are part of a conspiracy to be registered as voters and would vote in a particular way,” Derek T. Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame, told The Washington Post.
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