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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump plan to send 1,000 DOJ monitors to the polls could ‘jeopardize the election,’ NAACP lawsuit warns

Joe Biden’s former civil rights chief is leading a lawsuit against plans for Donald Trump’s administration to deploy hundreds of federal agents to polling places during the midterm elections.

Kristen Clarke, who oversaw the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice under Biden, is leading the NAACP’s case against her successor Harmeet Dhillon, who is planning what she calls the “biggest DOJ election observer effort in history.”

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