Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election
Democracy Docket • • nation
Key Points:
- Fulton County officials are suing the DOJ to recover election records seized by the FBI, alleging that FBI agent Hugh Raymond Evans deliberately misled a federal judge to obtain the search warrant for the unprecedented raid on the county’s 2020 election facility.
- A Trump-appointed judge has ordered Evans to testify about the affidavit used to justify the raid, which relied heavily on debunked voter fraud claims and allegations from conspiracy theorists and election deniers, raising questions about the affidavit’s credibility and probable cause.
- Fulton County argues that the affidavit violated the Fourth Amendment by relying on unsubstantiated hypotheticals and failing to present objective facts demonstrating probable cause, while the DOJ defends the warrant based on judicial approval and disputes the county’s standing to reclaim the
