The state of Texas sued the U.S. Justice Department on Monday, seeking to block the federal agency from monitoring the state’s elections after it announced plans to dispatch monitors to eight counties on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.



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The Justice Department is dispatching civil rights monitors to eight locations in Texas

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Department of Justice over a dispute involving the agency’s plan to use federal agents as election monitors on Election Day. In a lawsuit announced Monday, Paxton, who is a Republican, argued that the Biden administration has no authority to send DOJ agents to oversee across elections in eight... The post Texas sues DOJ over agency sending election monitors to eight counties appeared first on Daily Trut…

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Texas announced on Tuesday (November 5) that a few hours after the state Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the U.S. Department of Justice for announcing that it would send federal agents to "monitor" the Texas election, the Department of Justice agreed the night before not to send people into Texas polling stations and central counting locations, or to interfere in Texas' election management in other ways.

德克薩斯州週二（11月5日）宣布，在該州總檢察長肯‧帕克斯頓（Ken Paxton）就美國司法部宣布將派遣聯邦特工「監督」德州選舉一事起訴司法部幾小時後，司法部已於前一晚同意不派人進入德州投票站和中央計票點，也不以其它方式干預德州的選舉管理。

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After Texas filed a lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice agreed not to send people to monitor the state's election

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton originally tried kicking federal monitors out of the Lone Star State, but he and the DOJ struck a new agreement.

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After Trying To Block Election Monitors, Texas Will Now Allow Them Outside Polling Places

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The DOJ initially said it would send monitors to eight Texas counties, including Harris and Waller, to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws.

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Texas leaders aren't taking any chances with election integrity this year. They have unleashed a task force to guard against irregularities, and they've told federal agents looking to assist in that effort to pound sand.On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican and a staunch support...

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Texas leaders not taking chances with election fraud, but want DOJ monitors to find something else to do

Federal election monitors will remain within 100 feet from polling and central count locations and refrain from interfering with voters.

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The night before the presidential election, Paxton filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice and criticized the Biden administration.

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