All posts tagged "Fulton County"

A Trump-appointed judge dealt the Justice Department a major setback after finding the scope of its request "staggering" in a court order.

According to a court order filed on Tuesday, federal judge William M. Ray II quashed a DOJ grand jury subpoena that prosecutors had issued in April.

The subpoena sought a "staggering" amount of personal information about thousands of election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, who took part in the count and recount of the 2020 vote, Ray wrote. The rejection comes a week after the FBI sent hundreds of analysts to the Atlanta Field Office to review seized election materials....

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's resignation could have been connected to the potential legal trouble she created for President Donald Trump, according to an analyst on Friday.

Legal analyst Scott MacFarlane, Chief Washington Correspondent for MeidasTouch, told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that Gabbard's presence at the January FBI raid on the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center caused legal problems for the Trump administration, Mediaite reported.

"Not only is there concern that Tulsi Gabbard was there when the feds raided Fulton County and took their 2020 ballots — that’s complicating the effort by the [Trump] administration to fend off a legal challenge from Fulton County trying to get their ballots back. Her presence there has been a problem, potentially legally, in the dispute over those ballots," MacFarlane said....

A local GOP candidate is bragging about her election victory this week despite running unopposed.

The New York Post reported that Tiffany Henyard won her GOP primary race for a commissioner's seat in Fulton County, Georgia. However, as the Post noted, she ran unopposed.

"Thank you, Fulton County! We did it," Henyard wrote on Facebook. "Support the movement." ...

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."...

The internet reacted Monday after reports that President Donald Trump has set his eyes on Arizona's largest county in hopes to — again — try and litigate the 2020 presidential election and increase the federal government's influence over elections.

The Trump administration subpoenaed records from Maricopa County, Arizona, on Monday, Politico reported. In January, the Trump administration raided election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing 2020 ballots.

The 79-year-old president has long maintained the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him despite no evidence of fraud. In 2023, he was indicted in Fulton County for his attempts at reversing his loss in Georgia....

A statute of limitations issue could undercut the pressure Fulton County has been put under by Donald Trump's administration, an ex-prosecutor said.

Joyce Vance, a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, highlighted the glaring issue which can be found in court filings made against the Georgia county. Writing in her Substack, Vance observed a problem the Trump admin had seemingly not taken into account.

She wrote, "At the outset, there appears to be a statute of limitations issue. The government has five years from the time they were committed to prosecute these crimes. The election was in 2020. It’s now 2026. ...