Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will deploy poll watchers to “major counties” across the state on Election Day.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed the Department of Justice’s efforts to prevent civil rights violations at the polls amounted to “intimidation”

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Department of Justice asking for a temporary restraining order to prevent federal officials from monitoring the election.

Tuesday is Election Day, and Texas has already seen robust, but not record-breaking, turnout during the early voting period.

The move follows an agreement reached late Monday between the federal agency and the Texas attorney general’s office. The DOJ agreed their monitors in eight Texas counties will remain outside and at least 100 feet away from polling and central count locations.

Texas leaders say they intend to stand their ground over a state law banning federal election monitors from entering places where ballots are being cast or counted across the state on Election Day. Why it matters: The U.