A federal judge has ordered the search warrant affidavit justifying the FBI‘s raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility last month to be unsealed.
The FBI raided the election facility on Jan. 28 after securing a search warrant, seizing physical ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and voter rolls generated during the 2020 election at the building. Fulton County has since sued the Trump administration in order to get the files back, arguing their seizure was illegal.
As court proceedings have begun, some of those documents will be coming unsealed, including the affidavit. District Judge J.P. Boulee, a Trump appointee, said in a court filing that the affidavit must be unsealed by Tuesday at the latest.
“Respondent has stated that it does not oppose the unsealing of the search warrant affidavit and any other papers associated with the warrant subject to the redaction of the names of nongovernmental witnesses,” Boulee wrote in a two-page ruling. “IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Respondent shall file, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, the search warrant affidavit subject to the redaction of the names of non-governmental witnesses.”
Boulee also ordered the case docket and Fulton County’s motions to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to be unsealed after both parties similarly raised no objections.
The order comes as the FBI raid has been heavily scrutinized, especially since the target of the investigation is still unclear. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance at the raid has only piled on to the controversy.
The search warrant affidavit could shed light on the FBI’s motivations in seeking the ballots.
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President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has said the FBI’s investigation will determine the “true winner” of Georgia in 2020, a state he lost to Joe Biden by under 12,000 votes.
Fulton County has long been the hub of election fraud allegations related to the 2020 election, and a place fixated on by Trump for his stolen election claims.