It’s a contest between federal might and a state’s right as we head into the waning hours of the 2024 election. The Department of Justice announced that it would be sending lawyers out to 86 polling locations in 27 states to monitor them on Tuesday.
But some of those states are pushing back, including Missouri, which filed suit against the DOJ on Monday challenging the feds’ right to have monitors in place.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department in an attempt to prevent federal officials from monitoring polling locations in St. Louis on Election Day.
Ashcroft in a statement accused the Justice Department of “attempting to illegally interfere in Missouri’s elections” after the DOJ announced that it would oversee polling locations in in St. Louis, one of 86 jurisdictions in 27 states that the…
