Federal Judges turn back state efforts to bar Justice Dept monitoring ….

Crazy shit,, eh?

Republicans sign up THEIR poll watchers….

But don’t want the Fed’s to keep an eye on things?

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.

Both Missouri and Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls. Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state said any monitoring would “displace state election authorities,” and Texas’s attorney general contended that “Texas law alone determines who can monitor voting in Texas.”

The DOJ announced its intent to send poll monitors to 27 states in a press release Friday, asserting the agency “regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country.” The agency plans to monitor one city in Missouri, St. Louis, and eight counties in Texas.

In its opposition to Missouri’s request, the Justice Department pointed to a settlement it reached with St. Louis reached regarding a separate matter, compliance with the American Disabilities Act, in the final days of former President Trump’s administration.

The DOJ identified “architectural barriers” at polling places to people with disabilities, and as part of the city’s settlement with the agency, its Board of Election Commissioners agreed to let the Justice Department monitor for compliance — including on Election Day.

U.S. District Judge Sarah Pitlyk found that Missouri did not reach its burden of showing that the state would face irreparable harm if the Justice Department’s monitors watched over the city’s polls….

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