Justin Levitt
Role at the time: Loyola Law School election-law scholar
Statement summary
Levitt says that if the Wisconsin Elections Commission had banned ICE from the polls entirely, it would have gotten the state in trouble, because a state cannot single out federal officials for special treatment.
“That would actually be getting Wisconsin in trouble because you cannot single out federal officials for special treatment.”
Original interviews distinguish armed federal personnel from unarmed observers. The report describes guidance finalized October 15; later syndicated versions are not separate reporting.
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Relative to the prospect of ICE and other armed federal agents at polling places, Levitt agrees, as Votebeat reports, that armed agents are banned at the polls, but says a state cannot ban ICE from the polls entirely because it cannot single out federal officials. He treats armed presence as unlawful and objects only to a categorical ban, so mixed or conditional fits.