The Justice Department can retain 600 boxes of election records that prosecutors seized from Fulton County, a federal judge in Georgia ruled Wednesday, enabling investigators to continue pursuing a probe that dovetails with President Donald Trump’s grievances over his defeat in the 2020 election.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee ruled Wednesday that despite flaws in the Justice Department’s basis for the search warrants — and its execution of the search itself — Fulton County fell short of a stringent standard to demand the return of the seized materials, which included ballots from the 2020 election. The Democratic-controlled county had sued…
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