Lawyers in Fulton County, Georgia, are preparing to file a lawsuit over the FBI’s recent search of an election hub and its seizure of records linked to the 2020 election. 

Fulton County Commissioner Marvin S. Arrington Jr. on Monday announced the county’s intent to challenge the search in court.

Arrington said the county will file a motion in the Northern District of Georgia challenging “the legality of the warrant and the seizure of sensitive election records, and force the government to return the ballots taken.”

“I’ve asked the county attorney to take any and all steps available to fight this criminal search warrant,” Arrington said in a statement, according to several reports. “The search warrant, I believe, is not proper, but I think that there are ways that we can limit it. We want to ask for forensic accounting, we want the documents to stay in the State of Georgia under seal, and we want to do whatever we can to protect voter information.”

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The announcement comes after FBI agents executed a warrant at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia, on Jan. 28. The center was opened by state officials in 2023 and was designed to streamline the election process. The search warrant for the center, which was reviewed by Fox News, allowed the seizure of records, voting rolls and other data tied to the 2020 election.

Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia and includes the capital city of Atlanta. The county was at the center of voter fraud complaints in the wake of the 2020 election, which President Donald Trump lost. The claims did not survive court scrutiny.

When reached by Fox News Digital, the DOJ pointed to remarks made by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last week.

Blanche declined to comment on the investigation during a news conference, but underscored the administration’s emphasis on “election integrity.”

“Election integrity is extraordinarily important to this administration, it always has been and always will be,” Blanche said.

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In December 2025, the Department of Justice sued Fulton County for access to ballots related to the 2020 election. However, the county is fighting the lawsuit and claiming that the DOJ did not make a valid argument for accessing the ballots.

“They got copies of our voter rolls and all the original ballots,” Arrington said, according to WLUK-TV. “Now we cannot verify that we’ve received everything back because there was no chain-of-custody inventory taken at the time the records were seized.”

Trump confirmed last week that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was present during the FBI’s search of the Fulton County facility for matters related to election security.

Trump and several others were indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County Superior Court in 2023 over allegations that they engaged in a racketeering scheme to illegally overturn the 2020 election. However, the case never made it to trial, as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified from prosecuting it. The Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council, an independent entity, later moved to dismiss the indictment.

Despite Democrats’ scrutiny of the recent search, FBI Director Kash Patel has defended the bureau’s actions, saying investigators conducted an “extensive” investigation before the search took place.

“The FBI follows the facts and the law, and President Trump and the attorney general have given us a clear mandate to reduce crime in this country and investigate anything that rises to the level of probable cause,” Patel said on “Saturday in America.”

“The FBI and the DOJ went in and collected numerous pieces of evidence that the judge authorized us to collect,” Patel later added.

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The director said investigators were reviewing a “voluminous” amount of information collected during the search as the probe remains ongoing.

Fox News Digital reached out to Arrington’s office for comment.

Fox News’ David Spunt and Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch, Ashley Oliver, Alec Schemmel and Madison Colombo contributed to this report.

I am now in Mobile, Alabama. My Walk Across America has brought me to the Gulf Coast, where I see a city alive with the prideful sweat of American labor, deep faith and the quiet determination to enjoy a good quality of life.

Yet, when I look at the news on my phone, all I see is the turmoil up north in Minneapolis, where federal agents have been involved in two fatal shootings last month alone — first Renee Good and then Alex Pretti. It’s a stark cultural war flashpoint: one side demanding aggressive border security and law-and-order crackdowns under the current administration and the other crying foul over what they call excessive force and federal heavy-handedness in a blue city.

As I walk these Southern roads, talking to everyday Americans, I can’t shake the question: Are we losing sight of our foundational values in this bitter culture war that seems to know no bottom?

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Everyone claims the moral high ground for America, but the visions are diametrically opposed. On the one hand, you have personal responsibility and secure borders, and on the other, you have grievance politics and open-ended leniency. The progressive left, emboldened in places like Minneapolis, isn’t stopping there. They’re pushing policies that undermine law enforcement and excuse disorder in the name of social justice.

What’s truly at stake? The very idea of ordered liberty. Will we defend the rule of law, secure communities and the God-given right to self-reliance, or descend into endless division, eroded sovereignty and a nation where chaos replaces order? From what I’m witnessing on this walk, the antidote isn’t more government overreach or radical activism—it’s the timeless principles still alive in places like Mobile.

Mobile, one of America’s oldest port cities, wasn’t conjured from academic theories, DEI mandates or endless federal stimulus checks. It rose through generations of hard work, free enterprise, trade and personal accountability.

I can’t help but notice the contrast to the South Side of Chicago, where the focus is on the government debating bloated programs and wealth distribution schemes that trap people in cycles of dependency. The result is business vacancies, lack of resources and massive, dilapidated housing projects.

The Port of Mobile stands as living proof that jobs — good, honest jobs rooted in industry and initiative — deliver dignity far better than any government handout ever could. 

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But here in Mobile, the dockworkers, shipbuilders and logistics crews are out there every day creating real wealth and opportunity. The Port of Mobile stands as living proof that jobs — good, honest jobs rooted in industry and initiative — deliver dignity far better than any government handout ever could. When people are valued for what they produce rather than managed as wards of the state, communities flourish.

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I’ve spoken with families here whose livelihoods depend on this port, and they don’t wait for permission from Washington. They show up, work hard and build legacies. In sharp contrast to Minneapolis, where failed progressive policies have allowed crime, especially fraud, disorder and unchecked immigration, to fester before federal interventions turned deadly, Mobile reminds us that a strong work ethic and local economies free from overregulation are the true engines of prosperity and safety.

That’s precisely why I didn’t come to Mobile to lecture or “save” it. I came to listen and learn. True leadership doesn’t arrive with top-down government mandates or activist agendas. It walks humbly alongside communities, respects their God-given strengths and builds from the ground up. You can’t heal what you don’t love, and real transformation—like what we’ve fought for with Project H.O.O.D. in Chicago—grows organically when rooted in local faith, family and responsibility. 

In Mobile, pastors, parents and workers have welcomed me not as an outsider with all the answers, but as a brother in Christ seeking common ground. This stands in stark relief to the ideological battles paralyzing places like Minneapolis, where federal overreach meets radical resistance and commonsense solutions are lost in the noise.

The South’s quiet resurgence proves what coastal elites mock as “backward” is actually forward-thinking: lower taxes and living costs that let families thrive, stronger marriages and churches that anchor moral life, and a belief in personal ownership over government dependency. 

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Hurricanes have hammered Mobile repeatedly, yet the people rebuild without whining or waiting for bailouts. Neighbors helping neighbors, faith sustaining hope, responsibility trumping excuses. When faith erodes, as it has in too many urban centers, communities crumble.

Government can coerce compliance, but only God and the individual, rightly understood, can truly transform hearts and rebuild societies.

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A Republican candidate for governor in Florida announced on Monday that he launched a Tinder account so that he can campaign to young female voters in the Sunshine State.

James Fishback, a 31-year-old investment firm CEO, shared his latest campaign move on X.

“I’ve joined @Tinder to meet young female voters where they are, and share my plan to make it easier for them to get married, buy a home, and raise a family,” he wrote.

He added a screenshot of the profile that showed: “My hottest take is … Florida should offer paid maternity leave to all moms.”

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Less than an hour later, Fishback added an update: “i ran out of likes. could someone donate so i can get tinder plus?”

Fishback is running to succeed term-limited Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

He joins a crowded Republican field that includes U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.

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If elected, Fishback has said he’d propose a hefty “sin tax” on OnlyFans content creators.

“Young women once aspired to be devoted mothers, doctors, lawyers, and nurses,” James Fishback told Fox News Digital in a statement last month.

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Fishback continued: “Today, young women are told by an online platform called OnlyFans that it’s morally right to sell nude photos of themselves to strangers on the internet. I will not tolerate this cultural degeneracy as Florida’s next Republican Governor.”

Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.