At an Alaska DOJ press conference with FBI Anchorage, a reporter says legal experts have dismissed the basis for DOJ's lawsuit under the National Voter Registration Act, arguing the language it cites comes from the law's preamble. The reporter also says an intervener asked for sanctions against DOJ's attorneys, calling the suit frivolous. Asked to explain the case to the public, the official declines, saying motions are being drafted and responded to.
The receipt
- Who
- Nat hers with the Anchorage Press
- Where
- briefing - Alaska DOJ press conference with FBI Anchorage
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- The National Desk · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 59 seconds, unedited within the cut
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The lawsuit that DOJ has filed here, the legal underpinning for it, the National Voter Registration Act, is a really specific statute that has to do with voter registration and sort of legal experts have really dismissed the basis for this case, particularly that the language you guys are citing is actually from the preamble of the legislation which has no real binding legal power. One of the interveners in the case asked for sanctions against your attorneys who signed the change for this being a frivolous lawsuit. So can you help sort of draw out for people who are in the public who may not have sort of intimate legal understanding? Like how do you guys actually have a case here? I think I'm going to give you a truncated version of that answer, which is I'm not going to litigate that case in front of the media. As we speak, there are motions that are being drafted and responded to.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.