(AURN News) — A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain why it seized election records from majority-Black Fulton County, which indicted President Donald Trump in 2023, and gave the agency until 5 p.m. to respond.
Fulton County, Georgia, is home to Atlanta and is the jurisdiction where District Attorney Fani Willis indicted Trump in 2023 in connection with efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
This past January, years after multiple audits cleared the county of wrongdoing, FBI agents seized more than 600 boxes of original ballots and election records.
Fulton County sued to get the records back, arguing the seizure was retaliation. Civil rights groups warned the seized voter data could be used to purge Black voters from the rolls before the 2026 midterm elections.
U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Justice Department must disclose when the investigation started and when agents began drafting the warrant.
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