May 07, 2026
Fulton County has fallen short in its bid to recover 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that though the federal government's search warrant application was flawed, those problems didn't add up to a "callous disregard" for the county's rights.
May 01, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose more details about the timeline leading up to its January raid seizing ballots from Fulton County as he continues to weigh whether to force the government to return the hundreds of boxes of election materials.
March 27, 2026
A Georgia federal judge appeared skeptical Friday of Fulton County's efforts to recover hundreds of boxes of 2020 election ballots that were seized by the FBI in a January raid on a county warehouse, signaling he wasn't sure whether the government had shown "callous disregard" for the Constitution.
March 26, 2026
The FBI special agent behind the bureau's seizure of 2020 election records from Fulton County, Georgia, will not have to testify in an upcoming evidentiary hearing in the county's suit seeking return of the materials, a federal judge said Thursday.
March 23, 2026
A Georgia federal judge will allow Fulton County to move forward with its bid to force the U.S. Department of Justice into court this week to back up the evidence behind its January raid on the county's election office, when it seized 2020 ballots.
March 05, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has tasked former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton, now a Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner, to mediate the ongoing dispute over possession of Fulton County's 2020 election ballots after they were seized by the FBI in January.
February 26, 2026
A bipartisan group of former federal prosecutors told a federal judge that the U.S. Department of Justice shouldn't have sought a search warrant to seize election materials from Georgia's Fulton County last month and that in doing so, the department failed its "essential role in our justice system."
February 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to reject Fulton County's request for the return of 2020 election ballots and other records seized in a recent FBI raid, arguing those records might disappear forever if the Georgia county gets them back.
February 17, 2026
Fulton County on Tuesday again asked a Georgia federal court to order the federal government to return property that it contends was "improperly seized" by the FBI in a raid of its elections operations center last month, arguing that the federal government omitted "numerous material facts" in seeking a search warrant.