The Justice Department on Friday sued to block Alaska’s Senate certification if incumbent GOP Senator Dan Sullivan loses over the Democrats’ dirty trick to use a ‘decoy’ Dan Sullivan on the ballot.

A Democrat operative worked to register a man named Daniel J. Sullivan as Dan S. Sullivan (the incumbent Senator’s name) as a Republican primary challenger.

The decoy saboteur, Daniel J. Sullivan, is a Democrat and has a team of Democrats working for him, but they registered him as a Republican to cause chaos and confusion during Alaska’s August primary.

After that plan failed to add the decoy Dan Sullivan to the primary ballot over the summer, Daniel J. Sullivan’s name will appear on the Alaska ballot in the general election in November.

The lawsuit is seeking an order to block the Senate election results from being certified “if: (1) Senator Sullivan does not win the election; and (2) had all votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan been cast instead for Senator Sullivan and Alaska’s rank-choice process played out accordingly, Senator Sullivan would have won the election.”

“Given the substantial likelihood that the inclusion of Daniel J. Sullivan will confuse or mislead voters looking to cast a vote for Senator Sullivan, and thus distort the will of Alaskan voters, there is a substantial likelihood that a certification of the election will reflect an electoral process that lacked integrity,” the DOJ said in its complaint.

“For example, some supporters of Senator Sullivan likely will inadvertently vote for Daniel J. Sullivan,” the complaint said.

“To guard against this danger, it is vital that Defendants not certify any election result that may be impacted by voter confusion,” the court filing said.

President Trump told reporters that he directed the Justice Department to file the lawsuit.

“I’m the one that said do it,” Trump told reporters earlier Friday.

WATCH:

Dan Sullivan’s Democrat challenger, Mary Peltola, lashed out at the Trump DOJ for putting up a fight.

This is the corruption AK is fed up with, and it’s why I’m in this race. Sullivan has enriched himself at our expense for 12 years. Now he’s using his DC allies to try to keep himself in power and put his own interests ahead of Alaskans.

We will make sure every Alaskan is heard.

— Mary Peltola (@MaryPeltola) October 23, 2026