Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias rushed to social media Monday to celebrate a new National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lawsuit aimed at the Trump Justice Department’s plan to put roughly 1,000 federal election monitors at polling places for the November 3 midterms. Americans immediately told him what they thought of it.
It can be recalled that Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has called the initiative the largest DOJ election-observer effort in history and said the department is close to the 1,000 mark, drawn from department lawyers and other trained legal staff.
That is well above the roughly 289 monitors sent in the 2022 midterms and the 714 sent in the 2024 presidential election. She has also said monitors already covered 11 states and hundreds of polling locations during this year’s primaries.
Attorney General Todd Blanche already knocked down the armed-agent scare story.
On Fox News Sunday, Shannon Bream asked whether the monitors would be armed federal agents. Blanche’s answer: “Completely false. They’re going to be election monitors as they are every single time.”
He said DOJ has monitored elections since the 1960s, that the Trump administration is doing what “every single administration has done,” and that the monitors “are not going to Republican states.
They’re not going to Democrat states. They’re going to every state to make sure that our elections are carried out legally, fairly, and appropriately.”
That has not stopped the panic machine.
Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and chair of the Elias Law Group, posted: “BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms,” linking to his own outlet’s write-up.
BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. https://t.co/YJFrGhk49f
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) October 5, 2026
The case is not an order stopping the monitors. It is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, NAACP v. Dhillon, filed October 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The defendant is Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, sued in her official capacity as head of the Civil Rights Division.
According to Democracy Docket, the NAACP wants a judge to force the Civil Rights Division to turn over records before Election Day: the legal authority for the program, internal legal analysis, complaints used to justify deployments, the jurisdictions selected for November, training materials, monitor qualifications, whether state and local officials consented, and whether personnel from the FBI, U.S. Marshals, DHS, or ICE would take part. The group filed the underlying FOIA request on September 1.
“This unprecedented deployment of federal officials stands to jeopardize the election and interfere with the right of voters to participate in the election free from intimidation,” the NAACP wrote.
“Courts have recognized that unnecessary law enforcement and government presence at polling sites can cause fear, create confusion, impose burdens on election officials, and have a chilling or coercive effect on the electorate.”
The replies did not buy it.
Under Elias’s post, the comments turned fast.
“This is a pathetic lawsuit. What’s their issue with having feds at polling places?” wrote @FurioGiunta10.
“Hahah, ya’ll want to know where the election monitors are going so you can cheat at other polling locations. Classic! Tick Tock!” wrote @ShrinkGov.
“It’s outrageous if Trump is really going to have 1,000 I.C.E. agents at polling places on election day. It should be 20,000 minimum,” wrote @Jonnyinmd.
“Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Think back to when the black panthers were deployed,” wrote @JamesReedman1.
“I guess neither Elias nor the NAACP understand the law. It is perfectly legal for unarmed federal agents to be near polling places as long as they are not openly intimidating people,” wrote @Concernedf0rUSA.
“They may get the records after the election, but there’s no real point to the lawsuit other than a distraction from the real problems with the election. Remember kiddies it’s only ‘free and fair’ if the dems win,” wrote @magadog2020.
Others kept it shorter: “That’s because you Democrats like to cheat. WE KNOW.” And: “Bring your ID.”
@marceelias That happens every election. It’s not anything new. You are trying to turn it in to something. Thanks for having me look this up… look at 2020. Here is how they helped to steel the election only 44 for the country. https://t.co/CFLYMeB1XQ
— Corey miller (@millertime4060) October 5, 2026
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Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias rushed to social media Monday to celebrate a new National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lawsuit aimed at the Trump Justice Department’s plan to put roughly 1,000 federal election monitors at polling places for the November 3 midterms.
The post THEY’RE TERRIFIED: Marc Elias Cheers NAACP Lawsuit Demanding Records on Trump DOJ’s Plan to Send Roughly 1,000 Election Monitors to the Polls — and Gets BLASTED appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Democrat super-lawyer Marc Elias rushed to social media Monday to celebrate a new National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) lawsuit aimed at the Trump Justice Department’s plan to put roughly 1,000 federal election monitors at polling places for the November 3 midterms.
The post THEY’RE TERRIFIED: Marc Elias Cheers NAACP Lawsuit Demanding Records on Trump DOJ’s Plan to Send Roughly 1,000 Election Monitors to the Polls — and Gets BLASTED appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.