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Trump DOJ readies 1,000 election monitors for midterms

Trump DOJ readies 1,000 election monitors for midterms

The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 Department of Justice election monitors across the country in November.

The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 Department of Justice election monitors across the country in November, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday.

In an interview on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power, Dhillon also said the Justice Department could take its failing campaign to obtain unredacted state voter rolls all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

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