{"id":63214,"date":"2026-02-17T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63214"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:31:08","slug":"cnn-fulton-county-accuses-justice-department-of-misleading-the-judge-who-approved-elections-office-search-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63214","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Fulton County accuses Justice Department of misleading the judge who approved elections office search warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/17\/politics\/fulton-county-ballots-justice-department\">Fulton County accuses Justice Department of misleading the judge who approved elections office search warrant<\/a> by Tierney Sneed (\u201cOfficials in Fulton County, Georgia, accused the Justice Department of making \u201cserious\u201d omissions in the application the FBI filed to obtain a search warrant for 2020 election ballots last month. The local officials, who are seeking the return of the election materials, wrote in a court filing Tuesday that \u2018instead of alleging probable cause to believe a crime has been committed,\u2019 the FBI\u2019s application \u2018does nothing more than describe the types of human errors that its own sources confirm occur in almost every election\u2014without any intentional wrongdoing whatsoever.\u2019\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Fulton County accuses Justice Department of misleading the judge who approved elections office search warrant by Tierney Sneed (\u201cOfficials in Fulton County, Georgia, accused the Justice Department of making \u201cserious\u201d omissions in the application the FBI filed to obtain &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63215,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63214\/revisions\/63215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}