Attorney General Todd Blanche spent much of his weekend shrieking and sweating on national television in response to straightforward questions about the legal basis for the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to preemptively block certification of the Senate race in Alaska and the president’s stated involvement. “I will never, ever, ever talk about communications that I have with the president,” he said. But despite all the rage and spittle, Blanche is simply wrong on the Constitution and federal law. It’s not a close call.

The Alaska Senate race features three candidates relevant to this dispute: the incumbent Republican Senator Daniel S. Sullivan (we’ll call him the “Incumbent Dan Sullivan” for clarity here); the Democratic challenger Mary Peltola; and then another guy named Daniel J. Sullivan (we’ll call him the “Other Dan Sullivan”), a retired schoolteacher who has never previously sought public office. Republicans charge that the entry of the Other Dan Sullivan was intended to confuse Alaska voters and siphon votes away from the Incumbent Dan Sullivan, while the Other Dan Sullivan has said he ran for office because he wanted a “megaphone” to speak out on public issues.

The DoJ argues in its lawsuit that if Incumbent Dan Sullivan ultimately loses the Senate race to Peltola by a margin smaller than the number of votes cast for the Other Dan Sullivan, then Alaska should not be permitted to........

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