The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, seeking access to voting records from the 2020 presidential election. The complaint was filed on Friday, December 12, 2025.
According to the DOJ, the legal action follows an October subpoena for ballots and other election materials that Fulton County has not answered.
Fulton County is notable as the location where President Donald J. Trump faced one of several Democrat lawfare efforts, in this instance initiated by disgraced District Attorney Fani Willis, who was eventually disqualified from prosecuting the case. In late November, Peter Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, moved to dismiss a racketeering case against President Trump and his allies.
The Department of Justice has also filed lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada, alleging that these states failed to provide statewide voter registration lists upon request. With these actions, the number of states sued by the DOJ over election-related issues has risen to 18, alongside the lawsuit against Fulton County.
