Conservative lawyer refutes 'political revenge' claim by revealing the warrant judge donated to Clinton

…(cont) Three days later the file grew two more pages, pulling in opposite directions. Barack Obama, who rarely returns to domestic politics, called the operation "appalling," accusing the administration of using Homeland Security's machinery to go after a political opponent — a charge the government's own border czar, Tom Homan, answered hours later by telling Fox News investigators have a "strong case" against her, confidence delivered without a document to back it.

All together now — the document arrived anyway, from a direction nobody ordered: a conservative lawyer, writing to defend the investigation against exactly the "revenge" charge Omar's office and Obama were making, reported that the warrant for the raid on her home was signed by a judge who had once donated to Hillary Clinton. He meant it as proof the case wasn't rigged for Trump. Read again, all together now, and it proves something smaller: the government's "strong case" rests, this week, on a federal judge's campaign-finance history, offered as reassurance in a newspaper column — not on the case.

Omar's sister's phone, a text message on it, remains the known origin of the inquiry into the age on a decades-old citizenship form. The government has filed nothing larger since. What it has filed, this week, is a former president's adjective, an official's confidence, and a donor record offered as an alibi. None of the three is a document a defense attorney could file in court. All three were filed, this week, in the newspapers.