Trump administration sued over threat to deploy federal law enforcement at voting sites

Published September 18, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

Civil rights groups say plan will make people ‘afraid to vote’ and violates the Voting Rights Act

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A coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Trump administration officials on Friday, seeking to stop them from threatening to deploy federal law enforcement officers to polling stations in the US midterm elections.

Details

The suit, led by the NAACP, alleges that by threatening to deploy law enforcement to survey elections and initiating new voter roll oversight, the Trump administration has violated a section of the Voting Rights Act which prohibits voter intimidation.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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