When Federal Agents Came to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Door
Stanford’s David Sklansky discusses the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, the Justice Department’s election-timing rules, and what courts can do when prosecutions are challenged as retaliatory.
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Federal agents arrived at U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar’s door on October 12 and spent hours searching her home under a warrant a judge had approved. The search came three weeks before Election Day, and the Justice Department has a formal regulation against timing investigative actions to influence an election. Was the timing a coincidence, and were the department’s usual safeguards followed?…
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