Lisa Murkowski

Federal court dismisses Miller challenge to election – A federal judge has dismissed attorney Joe Miller’s R legal challenge to the ballot-counting process in the Alaska Senate race, removing one of the last remaining hurdles to Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s R path to victory as a write-in candidate. A federal judge has dismissed parts of the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to Arizona’s new immigration law. This content of Judge dismisses challenge Lisa Murkowski of Alaska certified as winner...Read Full Story

ANCHORAGE , Alaska ( Reuters ) - Failed Senate candidate Joe Miller must reimburse Alaska more than $17,000 in legal fees and costs incurred during his fight to overturn Lisa Murkowski 's write-in victory, a state judge ruled on Friday. Miller, a Tea Party favorite, beat the more moderate Murkowski in the Republican primary. But she then mounted a write-in candidacy in the general election and beat him by about 4.5 percentage points. Miller sued to overturn the results, arguing that elections...Read Full Story

Will the final unresolved election from November be settled this week Wednesday is the earliest day a federal judge in Alaska could rule on Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller’s appeal of write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski’s . If Miller chooses not to challenge the court’s ruling, a federal judge must lift his ban on the certification of Murkowski as the winner. That judge has not allowed any certification until Miller’s challenges have gone through Alaska’s courts.. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec...Read Full Story

Senator Lisa Murkowski was finally, officially, declared the winner of the hotly contested senate seat in Alaska on Thursday. Murkowski, who waged a write-in campaign after being defeated in the primary by Tea Party Republican Joe Miller, was certified after weeks of legal battles. Miller had been challenging the results in court since Election Day, but ran out of options, allowing Murkowski to be sworn in with the rest of her peers next week. "It’s done," Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, who...Read Full Story

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) has stated that she is opposed to the House’s attempts to defund Planned Parenthood .  She is the first Republican Senator to specifically support the recently criticized organization, although Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) sort of backed it as well. “I believe Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with their funding cuts in the bill,” Murkowski wrote in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii...Read Full Story