The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia desires to block the Justice Department from gaining entry to the personal information of 1000’s of 2020 election employees.
In a movement filed on Monday, the board requested that DOJ’s April 20 subpoena of election employees’ names, addresses and cellphone numbers be “quashed,” arguing that that is the division’s “latest effort to target and harass (President Donald Trump)’s perceived political enemies.”
It went on to say that the subpoena threatens the First Amendment rights of election employees “and will chill their participation in elections,” including that it additionally “unreasonably interferes with Georgia’s sovereign authority to administer elections.”
Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chair Robb Pitts stated in a press release offered to NCS that the subpoena is an act of “outrageous federal overreach.”
NCS has reached out to the Department of Justice for remark.
The board’s movement comes after the FBI opened a felony investigation into what the Justice Department has described as irregularities in how Fulton County, which is residence to Atlanta, carried out the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed the election was rigged in Georgia.
As half of the investigation, the company searched the Fulton County elections workplace in January and seized election supplies, which the county has filed a lawsuit to retrieve. That search was primarily based on a warrant utility that leaned on beforehand debunked theories of election fraud.
In the 2020 election, Joe Biden defeated Trump partly by profitable the state of Georgia, which Trump had gained four years earlier. In Fulton County, Biden gained with over 70% of the vote.
After his loss, Trump claimed the election was rigged within the state and demanded that native election officers “find” votes to overturn the outcomes, organising a conflict with the state’s high election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Raffensperger is at the moment working for the Republican gubernatorial nomination within the state in opposition to a Trump-backed candidate.
Monday’s movement raised doubts {that a} grand jury was even searching for the election employee information sought by the subpoena. The county famous within the submitting that DOJ was requesting to have the information submitted to a prosecutor working within the workplace of an out-of-district US legal professional relatively than a grand jury.
That US legal professional, Dan Bishop, within the center district of North Carolina, was lately chosen by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead election-related investigations nationwide.
“[T]here is no indication from the face of the Subpoena that the grand jury is even aware of this investigation, that the records will be returned to the grand jury, or that the grand jury would knowingly participate in a politicized abuse of its subpoena process given, among other things, that the statute of limitations has lapsed on any purported 2020 election ‘crime,’” the submitting stated.
The board additionally highlighted a number of of Trump’s social media posts to argue that the subpoena is meant to “intimidate and harass poll workers.”
In one November 2025 Truth Social post on a Georgia prosecutor dropping a racketeering case in opposition to the president and others over making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, Trump wrote, “THE 2020 ELECTION WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN.”
Trump “has made it clear that he seeks retribution against those who refuse to indulge his baseless claims,” attorneys for Fulton County’s board wrote within the submitting.
Since returning to workplace, Trump in lots of circumstances has appeared to retaliate in opposition to a large swath of critics and perceived political enemies by govt orders and Justice Department investigations.