Fulton County again turns Harmeet Dhillon's comments against DOJ in ballot seizure case

Harmeet Dhillon’s media habits may, again, be undermining the Department of Justice’s effort to defend the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election ballots from Fulton County, Georgia.

In a court filing Monday, Fulton County attorneys pointed to a March interview with right-wing commentator John Solomon, in which the Civil Rights Division chief appeared to describe — in plain terms — the very escalation of events the county says were improper.

“My jurisdiction, statutorily, is civil in nature. And so my colleagues, after we’ve tried to go through the front door and get these materials voluntarily, if they’re not complying — to help us help them do their jobs correctly — then it may become criminal in nature,” Dhillon said. “The FBI is doing their investigative work to see what they find and then ultimately they may come back to some component of DOJ to bring charges.”

The county is challenging the FBI’s seizure of 2020 election ballots, arguing the search warrant was “pretextual” — essentially a workaround to obtain records the government had already been trying to get through slow-moving civil litigation.



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