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The ‘sleeper case’ trying to stop Trump and the RNC from intimidating voters and poll workers

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Black voters want court supervision to prevent GOP from intimidating voters, poll workers and poll workers.

The lawsuit was brought in the days following the 2020 election.

The case is now in the hands of a federal judge handling the federal election subversion charges against Trump .

The GOP had been under a court-ordered consent decree from the early 1980s until 2017 that barred it from engaging in practices that could intimidate or discriminate against Black voters.

The lawsuit seeks to protect both voters and election workers, a group of officials who were targeted by Trump ’s allies in 2020 as he pushed lies about the legitimacy of the election and its results.

The earlier consent decree was primarily concerned with poll watching, whereas the proposed one is concerned about poll watching.

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