The Alaska Division of Elections took action to disqualify a man named Dan Sullivan from running on the ballot against the incumbent Republican senator of the same name — but a lawyer advising the state legislature is now warning this was probably illegal.

According to Alaska Public Media, "Andrew Dunmire, an attorney with the nonpartisan Legislative Affairs Agency, wrote a nearly five-page memo on the controversy." According to the report, the other Sullivan, who lives in Petersburg, "appears to meet the three qualifications the U.S. Constitution requires of senators, Dunmire said: He’s over 30, a U.S. citizen for nine years or more, and a state resident."

The Division of Elections ruled Sullivan ineligible because he had not filed in "good faith," and there was strong evidence he was deliberately trying to confuse voters into splitting the vote to boost Democrats.

But that isn't a valid disqualification reason, Dunmire argued: “To impose additional requirements on Mr. Sullivan — such as a requirement that he filed to run ‘in good faith’ — would improperly add to the exclusive list of Constitutional qualifications.”

Additionally, Dunmire argued, the Division of Elections made the opposite argument in 2024, "when the Division argued in court that it had to let Eric Hafner, a federal inmate in New York, appear on the Alaska ballot as a Democrat," potentially taking votes away from other Democratic candidates, despite the state Democratic Party complaining he wouldn't meet the residency requirement because of the length of his sentence.

The other Sullivan, who is also running as a Republican denies that he is a Democratic plant or that his candidacy is meant to deceive anyone, and Dunmire argued that there are sensible compromises where Sullivan could be allowed onto the ballot but displayed in a way that voters would not confuse him for the sitting senator.

Former President Barack Obama delivered pointed critiques of President Donald Trump during the opening ceremony of his presidential center in Chicago Thursday.

Obama gave a history lesson on America's founding ideals, saying, "In over more than two centuries, through petitions and protests ... men and women of all walks of life, from every color and every faith, every region, took up the cause of democracy until we, the people, came to include not just some of us, but all of us."

"And that's why the story we tell in this building begins not with Michelle's origins or my origins, but with our nation's."

In the wake of Trump ordering the Smithsonian and National Park Service to remove exhibits portraying America negatively, Obama reminded the audience of America's founding values.

"A declaration that we are all created equal, that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, that in the new independent United States, there will be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but only citizens," Obama said.

"No one is above the law, or beneath its protection."

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