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Judge Orders Fulton County Election Raid Affidavit Unsealed Today as Court Opens Case Docket

The filing is expected to reveal the government’s probable-cause rationale for seizing hundreds of 2020 election records from the county.

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing at the edge of a truck loading bay after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant for the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in relation to the 2020 election, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter, in Union City, Georgia, U.S. January 28, 2026.
The Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, is seen Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga, near Atlanta, as FBI agents search at the main election facility. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
An election observer assists a voter as she drops off an absentee ballot into a drop box outside a polling location for the 2020 Presidential election in Atlanta, Nov. 3, 2020.
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Overview

  • U.S. District Judge J. P. Boulee directed the government to file a redacted version of the search-warrant affidavit by close of business Tuesday and ordered the case docket unsealed.
  • The Justice Department told the court it does not oppose making the affidavit public so long as names of nongovernmental witnesses are redacted.
  • Fulton County’s emergency Rule 41(g) motion seeks the return of the seized 2020 election materials and asks the court to bar federal review of any copies while the dispute is litigated.
  • The FBI warrant sought all physical 2020 ballots plus tabulator tapes, ballot images, and voter rolls, citing potential violations of federal records-retention and voter intimidation/false-vote statutes.
  • Thomas Albus, the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri named on the warrant, filed his appearance on the Georgia docket to lead the government’s court proceedings.