Justice, three days before the vote
A bipartisan watchdog asks a special counsel whether the federal raid on Rep. Omar's house — days before Minnesota early voting — was law enforcement or election interference by the Trump DOJ.
Source article: Democracy Defenders Fund seeks Hatch Act investigation of Omar home raid.
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- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- crime, law, election
- Primary entities
- Ilhan Omar, Democracy Defenders Fund, Donald Trump, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Charles Baldis, Norman Eisen, Virginia Canter, Christopher Swartz, Richard Painter, Yassamin Ansari, Hatch Act
- Themes
- accountability_of_power, informed_citizenship
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness