Lawsuits remind Trump: armed feds at polls are illegal
Just in case anyone needed a refresher on basic law, civil rights groups are having to sue just to keep armed federal agents away from ballot boxes.
Imagine having to take the government to court just to remind officials what the law already says. That is pretty much where things stand right now.
According to reporting from NPR, civil rights groups have filed legal challenges pushing back against repeated suggestions from the administration of Trump that armed federal officers could be dispatched to monitor voting sites.
The wild part is that federal law has explicitly barred armed troops and federal agents from polling places for well over a century. It is classified as voter intimidation under existing statutes. Yet lawyers are still having to spend time and money getting a federal judge to state the obvious on paper.
Nothing bolsters confidence in election day quite like requiring emergency legal action just to keep armed troops away from the ballot drop box.
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