Judge Walton denies NAACP bid, orders limits on DOJ poll monitors
1 Nov 2 4:42 PM · 5d ago · 4 articles · 2 sources · development 1 of 1
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton denied the NAACP's emergency request to block the DOJ's roughly 1,000-monitor Election Day program, but ordered that monitors be administrative or clerical personnel only, unarmed, out of uniform, without federal insignia, and barred from making arrests or interfering with voters.
“The Court will order that the defendants comply with their counsel's concession that they will take action to ensure that the monitors participating in the DOJ's Poll Monitoring Program are indeed administrative or clerical personnel and not law enforcement officials...”
Judge Reggie Walton
Reggie Walton U.S. District Judge, D.C.NAACP Plaintiff/civil rights organizationU.S. Department of Justice Defendant / federal agency running poll monitoring program
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- Judge Denies Bid to Limit Whom DOJ Can Send as Poll Monitors Bloomberg · 5d ago
- Federal judge orders DOJ to ensure poll monitors are not law enforcement officials Fox News · 5d ago
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A federal judge ruled Monday the DOJ can deploy election monitors to polling sites across the U.S. — as long as they are not law enforcement officers with the power to make arrests. We speak with NAACP General Counsel Kristen Clarke.
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