Aisha Bakshi

It is true that for a judge to sign a warrant, the judge has to find that there's something called probable cause.

That means basically just looking at the evidence that the government presented, a judge is saying that there's a reasonable belief that a crime may have occurred.

It's not the type of process that you have when you have two sides often in criminal cases, you know, making their cases.

But it does say that the judge saw something that she thought gave the government license to seize these records.

It's a bit of a challenge for legal experts right now because there's so much we don't know.

Because the affidavit hasn't been released, we don't actually know what evidence the government presented to a judge.

So it's hard for outside legal experts to be able to weigh in too much on what happened here.

But we do know that Fulton County has filed a motion

challenging the legality of the search warrant and basically asking a court to make the government return all the records it seized and to halt the government from searching the records, doing anything with those records until a judge has decided whether Fulton County should win on its motion.

So we know a legal challenge is going on here that's challenging the lawfulness, but even that is under seal.

So unfortunately, right now, there's a cloud of mystery still shrouding what's happening here.

It did include Georgia.

It's important to note, you know, Trump and his allies filed about 60 lawsuits around the country.

Nothing from that was successful in showing that there was any type of widespread voter fraud that would have overturned the results of the 2020 election.

They did file lawsuits in Georgia that did not work.

Rudy Giuliani, who was a very close ally of President Trump,

alleged that particular election workers in Georgia had engaged in some sort of fraud or rigging.

Those election workers later sued him in court for defamation, and they won an enormous judgment, more than $100 million for defamation, which basically means you have to show that what the person said was false and that they said it in some sort of reckless fashion.

And then Georgia also brought charges against President Trump

essentially arguing that he unlawfully tried to overturn election results in that state as part of his efforts to overturn election results across the country.