Ken Dilanian is the justice and intelligence correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington.
In a sign of how distrust of the federal government has permeated Republican politics in the Trump era, GOP officials in three red states have tried to block the Justice Department from engaging in its decades-long practice of sending observers into polling places. Two of the states, Missouri and Texas, have asked federal judges to intervene, but overnight those judges declined to do so. The judge in Texas, however, held open the possibility he could act with more information.
In the Missouri case, the Justice Department cited a 2021 settlement with the city of St. Louis allowing the DOJ to monitor compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal District Judge Sarah Pitlyk denied Missouri’s request for a temporary restraining order overnight, ruling that the harms it cited were “speculative” and outweighed by the federal interest in enforcing the disabilities law. In Texas, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk took a different approach.
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