In a new lawsuit, Democrats are asking a federal court to block the Trump administration from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and from pressuring states to remove voters from the rolls.

Arlington County, Virginia, sued the Trump administration to stop armed federal agents from operating at and near polling places, arguing that their threatened presence at voting sites is already alarming voters just two weeks before Election…

The criminal statute that the DOJ is relying on to go after California officials "cannot be read as an implied grant of authority to impose an emergency ballot withholding regime," attorneys for the state said.