The U.S. Department of Justice changed course and agreed to not send election monitors into polling places in eight Texas counties, including Dallas, on Election Day, according to court documents. The decision comes after Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the agency following the Justice Department’s announcement Friday that it would deploy federal election monitors Tuesday to 86 jurisdictions across 27 states.

A pair of federal judges rejected requests from the attorneys general of Missouri and Texas seeking to block the Justice Department's plan to send election monitors to polling places in their states on Election Day.