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\u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thursday, September\u00a024\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBy Marc Elias \u00b7 Democracy Docket founder\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n For months, Donald Trump and his administration have suggested they will deploy armed federal agents in and around the polls. They have had every opportunity to disavow this violation of federal criminal law. Instead, they have doubled down again and again.\n\u00a0\nLate last night, Democrats said enough.\n\u00a0\nJust before midnight, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries filed a new lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from carrying out its policy of deploying ICE and other federal agents at the polls this November.\n\u00a0\nThis lawsuit is necessary and important \u2014 because Trump isn\u2019t just threatening to deploy ICE to polls. He\u2019s preparing for it \u2014 and the proof is in the past.\n\u00a0\nAs I have warned before, when Trump loses in court, he escalates. That is what he did after the 2020 election on Jan. 6, when I helped lead the legal effort on behalf of Joe Biden that defeated Trump and his allies more than 60 times in court.\n\u00a0\nIt is also what he has done throughout his second term. As you remember, Trump deployed federal agents to terrorize U.S. citizens in places like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis.\n\u00a0\nNow the Department of Justice has lost for the 25th straight time in its bid to obtain sensitive voter rolls. Trump's attempt to weaponize the U.S. Postal Service against mail-in voting has failed. His poll numbers are plummeting.\n\u00a0\nTrump is becoming more dangerous to our democracy every single day.\n\u00a0\nThe new lawsuit, which my law firm filed, traces the administration's campaign to subvert elections to its threat to deploy federal agents at polling locations.\n\u00a0\nIt notes that in May, ICE was in the parking lot of a polling place in Texas and in June, ICE agents were spotted in the parking lot of a polling place in California, at least one of them masked and wearing a tactical vest.\n\u00a0\nMost disturbingly, on June 23, ICE agents entered a polling site in Syracuse, New York, to confront a poll worker who had criticized the agency on Instagram. They arrived carrying a folder of printed screenshots of her posts and a copy of her driver's license.\n\u00a0\nYes, you read that right. Federal agents went to an active polling place to pressure an election worker over her social media posts.\n\u00a0\nAnd then there are the administration's own statements.\n\u00a0\nIn February, then-White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she couldn't guarantee that ICE agents wouldn't be near polling locations.\n\u00a0\nIn March, Todd Blanche, then deputy attorney general and now attorney general, asked a conservative conference, \"Why is there objection to sending ICE officers to polling places?\"\n\u00a0\nIn May, a reporter asked Trump whether he would send the National Guard or ICE agents to voting locations in November. He responded that he would \"do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections.\"\n\u00a0\nAt his confirmation hearing in March, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said officers could be deployed to polling places if there was a \"specific threat.\" Earlier this month, he went further, saying agents could be at the polls if \"we're serving a warrant on someone that we have been actively tracking down.\"\n\u00a0\nPerhaps most chillingly, FBI Director Kash Patel was asked under oath last week to commit to keeping FBI agents away from the polls. He refused: \"If there's a reason to go there because there's been a violation of the law, we will.\"\n\u00a0\nLet me be clear: federal criminal law prohibits armed federal agents at places where voting is taking place. The only exception is \"to repel armed enemies of the United States.\" Violating this law is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.\n\u00a0\nA separate provision of the Voting Rights Act bars anyone, including government agents, from intimidating, threatening or coercing voters or those who help others vote.\n\u00a0\nAs the Democrats\u2019 lawsuit explains, dispatching armed federal agents to the polls \u2014 \"or even threatening to do so\" \u2014 is forbidden by federal law. Voters don't have to be arrested or even approached to be intimidated. And because no voter can know in advance whether agents will be at their polling place, the threat alone chills voting everywhere.\n\u00a0\nThat is why we are asking the court to act now.\n\u00a0\nThe lawsuit seeks an order barring the administration from sending armed officers anywhere near open polling places, drop boxes, curbside voting locations or any other site where ballots are collected, counted or certified. The order would apply from the start of early voting through the end of post-election ballot curing.\n\u00a0\nThe Democratic Senate, House and governors' committees that brought this case understand the threats to our elections. They have candidates on the ballot across the country, and they know that Trump's plan to deploy federal agents at or near polling places is intended to swing outcomes.\n\u00a0\nJust as important, they recognize this as Trump's latest escalation in his effort to rig the rules and steal the results. This is the third lawsuit these groups have filed to protect the midterms.\n\u00a0\nThe first two challenged Trump's executive orders on voting and the USPS mail-in voting rule. I am proud of the work my team did to win both.\n\u00a0\nThere is no guarantee this new lawsuit will prevail. For the sake of our democracy, let's hope it does.\n\u00a0\n\u27a4 Read more premium content",
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