Minnesota lawmaker’s attorneys asked for return of seized items and the preservation of any recordings of search
Omar’s attorneys wrote that there is “no legitimate basis for any suggestion that she has violated any law concerning her citizenship status”, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the lawyers’ letter.
“This vindictive, retributive, and politically motivated criminal investigation into one of the president’s chief congressional critics violates Representative Omar’s constitutional rights and threatens the separation of powers,” the congresswoman’s attorneys wrote.
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