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Trump DOJ Raids Rep. Ilhan Omar's Home
Trump's DOJ raids Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home to strip citizenship, sparking selective prosecution concerns.
In brief
Trump's DOJ raids Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home to strip citizenship, sparking selective prosecution concerns. Trump's DOJ raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's home to build denaturalization case, violating DOJ election rules and eroding post-Watergate safeguards. Originally reported by Slate Magazine.
DOJ Raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar
Trump's DOJ raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's D.C. home to build denaturalization case.
“ICE executed an early morning search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home, apparently targeting immigration statements made when she was 12 years old, by a father who is now deceased”
Selective Prosecution Concerns
Weissmann warns of selective and vindictive prosecution violating DOJ's 60-day election rule.
“Weissmann, lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office from 2017 to 2019 and chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice from 2015 to 2019”
Post-Watergate Safeguards Eroded
Trump's DOJ dismantles guardrails preventing selective prosecution abuses.
“post-Watergate guardrails established to prevent exactly these kinds of abuses have been dismantled”
Denaturalization Case Details
Case targets immigration statements from Omar's father, now deceased, made when she was 12.
“apparently targeting immigration statements made when she was 12 years old, by a father who is now deceased”
What to remember
Trump's DOJ raided Rep. Ilhan Omar's home to build denaturalization case, violating DOJ election rules and eroding post-Watergate safeguards.
