The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge to block the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to St. Louis to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day ...

Ashcroft accused the DOJ of attempting to interfere with Missouri’s election process by sending the department’s own deputies to monitor polls without his authorization.

In 2022, both Florida and Missouri resisted efforts by the Justice Department to send poll monitors to locations including Miami-Dade and Broward County, Florida.

Texas, Missouri sue to block Justice Department from sending poll monitors Voters mark their ballots at a Ferguson polling station during Election Day in Missouri, US, November 3, 2020.

Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Missouri and Texas … ...

Missouri on Monday sued to block the Justice Department from sending its election monitors to St. Louis, one of several Republican-led states trying to deny them access to polling sites. The ...

The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights ...

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft brought a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, alleging it overstepped its authority by arranging for federal officials to monitor polls in St. Louis ...

Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state claimed in the lawsuit that, “at the 11th hour,” the DOJ is seeking to “displace state election authorities” by sending monitors to ...