US EditionGeorgia’s Fulton County heads to court to seek return of 2020 ballots seized by FBI
Judge Boulee ruled that FBI testimony could reveal sensitive investigative details and disrupt enforcement, supporting DOJ's refusal to compel testimony in ballot raid dispute.
- A federal judge will hear arguments over Fulton County’s request for the FBI to return ballots and materials seized from the 2020 election.
- The hearing comes after both sides failed to reach an agreement during court-ordered mediation.
- The seized materials are from Georgia’s most populous county, which has been central to Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud.
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Trump Justice Department’s probe of the 2020 election gets first public test in court
The Justice Department on Friday faces the first public court test of its effort to investigate President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, as it fends off a lawsuit seeking a return of 2020 Atlanta-area ballots the FBI seized in an unprecedented move earlier this year.
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Georgia's Fulton County heads to court to seek return of 2020 ballots seized by FBI
A federal judge is weighing Fulton County’s demand that the FBI return ballots and records from the 2020 election that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse.
Judge stops Fulton County's attempt to get FBI agent to testify at hearing over seized election records
A judge will not force the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who submitted the sworn affidavit in support of the federal agency's search of Fulton County election hub to testify at an evidentiary hearing on Friday.
Judge blocks key agent in Georgia ballot‑seizure case from answering questions
U.S. District Court Judge J. P. Boulee, who is overseeing the Fulton County, Georgia, ballot case, has quashed the subpoena for FBI Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, who provided the one affidavit used to support the search warrant to seize the ballots from the 2020 election, reported Lawfare legal analyst Anna Bower. It's a huge hit before the Friday evidentiary hearing over the raid on the elections office. Fulton County officials believe that Evans d…
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