Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil-rights plaintiffs in a subsequently-filed state court declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking to declare the state actors' actions lawful

QUESTIONS PRESENTED (1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subsequentlyfiled state court declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking to declare the state actors’ actions lawful. (2) Whether state actors’ administering an election in a manner that is not neutral to that election’s outcome violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection and due process clauses. (i)