A post on the Election Law Blog announces a proposed amicus brief, filed with lawyers from Manatt, supporting Common Cause and the League of Women Voters' motion for summary affirmance to end the Justice Department's Ninth Circuit appeal seeking to block certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate race while ballots are still being tabulated. The brief calls the federal government's suit—which rests on the word "integrity" in a registration statute's preamble—preposterous and untimely under laches, quotes election law experts calling it meritless and "uniquely embarrassing," and urges the court to affirm swiftly that Alaska alone certifies its winners.