Calling Trump a ‘Clear Threat to Our Democracy,’ Civil Rights Group Sues Admin. Over Voter Intimidation

People wait in line outside the Washington Park Library to cast their ballots on the first day of in-person early voting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 20, 2020. (Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images) Latino civic engagement organization Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and several individual voters on Wednesday sued President Donald Trump and members of his administration for voter intimidation in violation of federal law.

The lawsuit (pdf), filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names Trump, Attorney General Bill Barr, and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf as defendants based on what the plaintiffs describe as their “violent suppression of public protests opposing police brutality, the encouragement of white supremacist ‘vigilantes,’ threats to send ‘sheriffs’ and other law enforcement to the polls, the undermining of mail-in voting, and the rejection of the peaceful transfer of power.”

“Court intervention is now critical to stop this illegal voter intimidation and to protect the fundamental right to vote.” — Hector Sanchez Barba, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund “Trump is a clear threat to our democracy,” said Hector Sanchez Barba, the executive director of Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, in a statement released Wednesday by Free […]

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