A federal judge late Monday denied an effort by Missouri’s Republican leaders to ban Justice Department election monitors from gaining access to polling sites in St. Louis County on Election Day. U.S. District Judge Sarah Pitlyk said state officials were ...

The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by the state's attorney general and secretary of state, accuses the Justice Department of making an 11th hour plan that intends to "displace state election authorities" by sending poll monitors on Tuesday to locations throughout St.

U.S. judges have denied requests from the Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas to block the federal government from sending lawyers to their states on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws.