Overview
- Fulton County asked a federal judge in Georgia to order the return of hundreds of boxes of 2020 ballots and records and to unseal the sealed warrant affidavit.
- Court materials indicate the warrant covered all 2020 ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls, while county leaders raised chain‑of‑custody and storage concerns.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was present at the search, with Trump alternately tying her role to foreign‑interference concerns and to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, as Gabbard told Congress the president directed her to attend.
- Trump reiterated calls to take federal control in select locales after previously saying Republicans should “nationalize” voting, drawing pushback from officials in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia, from all Democratic governors, and from Republicans including Sen. John Thune and Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger.
- The White House said it has no “formal plans” to deploy ICE at polling places after ally Steve Bannon urged federal agents and even troops at voting sites, while noting legal limits on military involvement in elections.