{"id":73162,"date":"2026-05-06T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/justice-department-can-keep-2020-ballots-fbi-seized-from-fulton-county-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:55:05","slug":"justice-department-can-keep-2020-ballots-fbi-seized-from-fulton-county-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/justice-department-can-keep-2020-ballots-fbi-seized-from-fulton-county-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice department can keep 2020 ballots FBI seized from Fulton county, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heavily Democratic Fulton county has been at the center of Trump\u2019s false claims of election fraud in 2020<\/p>\n<p>The federal government can keep the 2020 election ballots from Georgia\u2019s Fulton county seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>US district judge JP Boulee\u2019s decision came after lawyers for the county had argued that the ballots and other election materials, as well as any electronic copies the justice department has made, should be returned because the seizure was improper and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/06\/justice-department-2020-ballots-fbi-seized-fulton-county\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavily Democratic Fulton county has been at the center of Trump\u2019s false claims of election fraud in 2020 The federal government can keep the 2020 election ballots from Georgia\u2019s Fulton county seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday. US district judge JP Boulee\u2019s decision came after lawyers for &#8230; <a title=\"Justice department can keep 2020 ballots FBI seized from Fulton county, judge rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/justice-department-can-keep-2020-ballots-fbi-seized-from-fulton-county-judge-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Justice department can keep 2020 ballots FBI seized from Fulton county, judge rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}