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The Guardian - US
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Eric Berger and agencies

Ilhan Omar’s attorneys say federal search of her home was ‘neither justified nor lawful’

A woman in a hijab.
Ilhan Omar in Washington DC on 13 January 2026. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Ilhan Omar’s attorneys have asked the US Department of Justice to return property that federal agents removed days earlier from her home during a search.

The lawyers for the Minnesota Democrat contended that the seizure as “neither justified nor lawful”, according to a letter that the Associated Press reported on Friday.

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