Judge orders release of evidence Trump’s DOJ used to raid Georgia elections office

Editor's Note: This story has been updated for clarity.

The public could learn as early as Tuesday what evidence the Department of Justice gave to a magistrate judge to secure a search warrant for a Fulton County elections hub.

Speaking to CNN on Monday afternoon David Becker, the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said that the Justice Department doesn't object to the information being unsealed.

The FBI and DOJ removed all the 2020 election ballots from Fulton County, even though the warrant authorized them to take only copies.

Becker noted that there were "a lot of defects on this warrant" that had to be addressed during the raid itself. At one point, body camera footage showed FBI agents saying they didn't care what officials said; they weren't leaving without the 2020 ballots.

"They got the address wrong. They have this big statute of limitations problem. There's a five-year statute of limitations under federal law for either of the two statutes that they raised, and by almost any measure, that statute has run its course," said Becker.

He also noted that conspiracy theorists are the basis for some of the allegations in the filing and that their arguments "have literally been rejected by every court they've been heard in."

Becker said he's curious to see whether the information in the affidavit tries to rehash the same arguments from five years ago.

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