The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge to block the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to St.

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

LOUIS — UPDATE: A U.S. District judge denied Missouri ... on Election Day).” This is the second general election that Ashcroft has pushed back against DOJ election monitors in the state.

The Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas sued the US Justice Department on Monday to block the federal government from sending lawyers to their states on Election Day to monitor for ...

Missouri’s lawsuit had accused the Justice Department of making an 11th-hour plan that intended to “displace state election authorities” by sending poll monitors on Tuesday to locations ...

Republican led-states seeking to block Justice Department election monitors from standing outside polling places aren’t finding success. A federal judge late Monday denied Missouri’s effort to ...

election judges, etc." and not federal officials. The Justice Department also sought to monitor polling places in Missouri in 2022. The agency planned to have officials at Cole County, which ...

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