The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge to block the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to St.

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft brought a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice, alleging it overstepped ...

A U.S. district court judge ruled against Republican leaders who sought to bar federal monitors from polling sites in St. Louis County on Election Day.

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Attorney General Andrew Bailey, both Republicans, filed a lawsuit earlier Monday challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s plans to monitor polls ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department ... in Missouri and Texas on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws after those Republican-led states had sued to ...

The Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas sued the US Justice Department on Monday to block the federal government from sending lawyers to their states on Election Day to monitor for ...

Three Republican-led states – Texas, Florida and Missouri – sued to block the Justice Department's election monitors from going inside polling places on Election Day, the Associated Press ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Department of Justice over a dispute involving the agency’s plan to use federal agents as election monitors ... such as Texas, Missouri, and Florida.

(Charlie Riedel/AP) Missouri on Monday sued to block the Justice Department from sending its election monitors to St. Louis, one of several Republican-led states trying to deny them access to ...

A federal judge late Monday rejected an effort by Missouri’s Republican leaders to ban Justice Department election monitors ... Texas had sued to block the monitors. The developments came ...

The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge to block the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to St. Louis to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day.