NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ\u2019s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has been sued over its plans to deploy \u201ca historic number\u201d of election monitors to polling stations during next month\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n
The bid \u201cstands to jeopardize\u201d the elections and could \u201cinterfere with the right of voters to participate in the election free from intimidation\u201d, according to the NAACP, which filed a lawsuit<\/a> against Harmeet Dhillon, head of the justice department\u2019s civil rights division, who has said<\/a> she hopes to send 1,000 monitors to midterm polling sites in November.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ\u2019s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls The Trump administration has been sued over its plans to deploy \u201ca historic number\u201d of election monitors to polling stations during next month\u2019s midterm elections. The bid \u201cstands to jeopardize\u201d the elections and could \u201cinterfere with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}