Fulton County Chairman, Robb Pitts, says Friday’s ruling in the county’s law suit against the Department of Justice for the unlawful seizure of election ballots in the 2020 presidential race will require additional scrutiny before deciding whether or not to proceed with the case.
Pitts said the administration’s decision to raid the county’s election office wass just the first in a series of actions which would open the flood gates and set a precedent to take similar actions in other counties that did not elect to send Trump back to the White House in 2020.
“This case is not only about Fulton County,” said the county chairman. “This is about elections across Georgia and across the nation,” Pitts added.
In February, the same judge, J. P. Boulee, ordered that documents related to the FBI’s seizure of Fulton County ballots from the 2020 presidential election be unsealed.
Boulee, an appointee of President Donald Trump, issued the order in response to motions filed by Fulton County to unseal the records related to the Jan. 28, 2026 FBI raid on an election operations center at Campbellton and Fairburn Roads.
In response to the unprecedented execution of a federal search warrant on an elections center, Fulton County Commissioners filed a motion to challenge the legality of the warrant and the seizure of sensitive election records, and force the government to return the ballots taken.
On Jan. 28, 2026, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in Union City, seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots, voter rolls, ballot images and other records from the 2020 election. The warrant has been widely criticized by local officials who say it represents federal overreach.
Attorneys for Fulton County argued that the FBI agent in charge of the raid lied to the judge and omitted things just to get the warrant signed. Fulton County Commissioner, Marvin Arrington, the only oracticing attorneey on the commission, said he also had issues with the execution of thee warrant.
“The search warrant, I believe, is not proper, but I think that there are ways that we can limit it. We want to ask for forensic accounting, we want the documents to stay in the State of Georgia under seal, and we want to do whatever we can to protect voter information.”
Fulton County officials stressed that while the FBI was authorized to copy records under a separate court order, agents instead took physical custody of original ballots — including in-person, absentee and provisional ballots — and voter rolls. “They got copies of our voter rolls and all the original ballots,” Arrington said. “Now we cannot verify that we’ve received everything back because there was no chain-of-custody inventory taken at the time the records were seized.”
Fulton County leaders have publicly pushed back against the federal action while also acknowledging compliance with the warrant as executed.
Details of the County’s case will be updates as details become available.
