Trump-appointed District Court Judge J. P. Boulee quashed a subpoena for an FBI agent who was behind a search warrant that allowed the federal government to seize ballots and other materials from the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia.
In a 16-page ruling on Thursday, Boulee noted that Fulton County had filed a motion to return the election materials and had subpoenaed FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, who had signed the affidavit for the warrant that searched the county's election headquarters.
The Department of Justice countered that the subpoena was "not appropriate under the rules governing the case," because the agent could not be "questioned regarding 'pertinent facts' about the subject matter of the affidavit[] without revealing information about the ongoing criminal investigation that is the subject of the affidavit."
In the end, Boulee sided with the DOJ and quashed the subpoena. Evans will not have to testify at a March 27 evidentiary hearing.
President Donald Trump has long claimed that the 2020 election in Fulton County was rigged against him.