Missouri sues to block Justice Department from sending poll monitors
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city's election board agreed to permit it.
Missouri is one of 27 states the Justice Department said on Friday it would send staff out to monitor voting locations, as it has done regularly during national elections. The settlement was completed at the very end of the Trump administration, when Eric Dreiband previously served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
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