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Attorney General Todd Blanche confronted CNN host Dana Bash on Sunday after the network highlighted only the first portion of the Constitution's Elections Clause during a heated exchange on "State of the Union" over the Justice Department's lawsuit concerning two candidates with similar names in Alaska's closely watched Senate race.

Blanche pushed back as Bash referenced the Alaska Supreme Court's earlier ruling allowing Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., who shares a name with incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, to remain on the ballot. The attorney general demanded that CNN display the remainder of the constitutional provision, which grants Congress authority to make or alter regulations governing congressional elections.

"Conveniently, you put up the Constitution on your screen, but you highlighted only the first clause. Why don't you show the next clause to your viewers, which says that Congress is allowed to pass laws to make sure that that happens?…