Rep. Ilhan Omar challenges legality of Trump administration search of her home

CNN · MS NOW and MS NOW report that lawyers for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. , have demanded the Justice Department immediately return everything taken from her Washington-area home on Monday, arguing the search was unlawful and politically driven. Her attorneys, Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, wrote to prosecutors Friday that an inquiry into one of the president's leading congressional critics threatens the separation of powers, and that the timing, under three weeks before Election Day, runs against Justice Department custom. Homeland Security investigators carried out the warrant in an immigration fraud and conspiracy probe, and a magistrate judge had set conditions on how documents could be accessed.

The letter says those conditions were not honored. The House general counsel's office learned of the search only after it became public, Omar had no copy of the warrant beforehand, and no Justice Department representative was present to explain her Speech or Debate Clause protections. MS NOW adds that she was kept from reaching her lawyers for over an hour, and that the letter seeks recordings within five days.

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