Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Department of Justice over a dispute involving the agency’s plan to use federal agents as election monitors on Election Day.

In a lawsuit announced Monday, Paxton, who is a Republican, argued that the Biden administration has no authority to send DOJ agents to oversee across elections in eight Texas counties: Atascosa, Bexar, Dallas, Frio, Harris, Hays, Palo Pinto, and Waller. The Texas Election Code does not include federal agents in the list of people who are permitted to be in the “central counting station while ballots are being counted,” the Republican lawmaker said.