The US Justice Department is facing the first public court test of its investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 election defeat. The department is being sued by Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robert Pitts and other local officials for the return of 2020 Atlanta-area ballots seized by the FBI earlier this year. The local officials argue that the FBI misled the magistrate judge who approved the warrant for the seizure by not including all relevant information in the application. The DOJ has defended the seizure and argued that the county officials have not met the high threshold for requiring the return. The hearing will be closely watched for what it reveals about the administration's larger investigation in the 2020 election.