NAACP sues DOJ for records on its plan to send 1,000 election monitors to polls
Attorney General Todd Blanche says monitors will go to all 50 states; the group's lawyers say no federal law puts them in polling sites.
The NAACP sued DOJ civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon over its unanswered Sept. 1 records request. AG Todd Blanche says monitors in all 50 states are standard practice; NAACP counsel Kristen Clarke says no federal law lets DOJ send them to polling sites.
- Dhillon has said she hopes to deploy 1,000 monitors in November.
- The NAACP filed its records request on Sept. 1, 2026, and says DOJ never answered it.