Reggie Walton
Senior US District Judge in Washington, DC; Bush appointee who presided over the Libby trial.
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Refused to stop DOJ's poll monitors but set conditions on them
US Midterms 2026: Judge Walton orders DOJ monitors unarmedBackground
Reggie Walton is a senior judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia. On 2 November 2026 he refused the NAACP's emergency request to stop the Department of Justice's planned 1,000 or so poll monitors, but ordered them unarmed, out of uniform and without arrest powers, The Washington Sun reported.
President George W. Bush appointed Walton in 2001, and he took senior status at the end of 2015. He had earlier served two spells on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, from 1981 to 1989 and from 1991 to 2001. He sat on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2007 and presided over it from 2013 to 2014. In 2007 he presided over the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Harmeet Dhillon of the department's Civil Rights Division had announced the monitoring plan in September. Walton warned that if the government misrepresented its plans, "somebody is going to pay a price for that".
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