Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home Monday morning. Within hours, Omar had called it “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” Within hours after that, the usual chorus of allies and sympathetic commentators picked up the same refrain: lawfare, intimidation, political persecution.
Save your breath.
Here’s what actually happened, in the order it happened. Homeland Security Investigations agents, a branch of DHS that handles criminal investigations, executed a search warrant. The Justice Department confirmed it was “judicially authorized” — meaning a federal judge, not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not some administration official with a grudge,