Overview
- Newly released police body-camera footage shows tense exchanges as agents executed the Jan. 28 warrant at Fulton County’s Union City elections hub, with officials restricted from observing and the records bound for the FBI’s Central Records Complex in Virginia.
- Fulton County has filed an emergency Rule 41(g) motion asking a federal judge to order the return of the materials, bar federal use of them for now, and unseal the affidavit; the county’s filing itself remains under seal.
- The FBI said the operation proceeded under a court-authorized warrant and that agents briefly returned to a judge to refine it after discovering a previously unknown secure area in the facility.
- County and warrant documents indicate agents removed roughly 656–700 boxes, including 2020 ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls, while local leaders voiced chain‑of‑custody and access concerns.
- A state judge separately dismissed a pro‑Trump lawsuit over Georgia’s 2020 results and imposed fines, and a county commissioner said a sealed filing asserts civil actions were used as an “end around” before seeking a criminal warrant; the affidavit supporting the search remains sealed.