The NAACP, labor unions and other advocacy organizations sued the Trump administration on Friday, seeking to stop the potential deployment of federal agents at voting locations during the midterm elections.
The administration has sought more federal control over elections as part of President Donald Trump’s plans to address his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and other senior administration officials have not shut down the idea of deploying troops or federal agents to polling places in November, prompting Democratic lawmakers to plan resistance efforts.
The NAACP’s lawsuit is asking a federal court in Washington to stop the Trump administration from “deploying agents in a manner that unlawfully intimidates voters or anyone urging
or aiding voters,” according to court records.
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“The result is predictable: voters across the country—particularly Black, Latino, and
Asian voters, naturalized citizens, and members of mixed-status families—are afraid to vote, help others vote, and participate in civic life,” the lawsuit says, arguing that the result is “unlawful voter intimidation” in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
The White House referred The Washington Sun to February comments from then-press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said she has not heard Trump “discuss any formal plans” to station federal immigration agents outside of polling locations and said asking about it was a “very silly hypothetical question.”
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