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Trump's DOJ barrels into midterms with lawsuits, raids and arrests
With just nine days until the midterms, the Trump administration is escalating its assault on two of the Department of Justice's most sacred guardrails:Independence from the White House.Restraint before elections.Why it matters: President Trump's DOJ has shattered the traditional calm of a pre-election period with a barrage of politically sensitive investigations, prosecutions and eleventh-hour efforts to influence the vote.Zoom in: The Justice Department's most aggressive election intervention yet came this week in Alaska, where a preemptive lawsuit seeks to delay certification of the state's