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Page A226From§Eachthe evening edition — 31 October 2026

The outlet that carried the push to remove Omar reports only Congress may do it.

By MitchInvestigations

“Who are Ilhan Omar’s lawyers? Meet the high-powered Dem attorneys the embattled rep hired”, 31 October 2026 (Photo via Fox News — the original report)

As it ran on the front

The file on Rep. Ilhan Omar keeps growing by the attachment, so take it in the order it was stapled. On 16 October, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told CBS News the investigation was a "strong case," headed toward a grand jury. On 17 October, the New York Post reported federal agents had searched Omar's Washington home and that officials were building toward deportation. On 18 October, Barack Obama called the search "so appalling." On 21 October, the Washington Examiner reported the deportation case was complicated by procedural factors, the kind of sentence that means more paperwork, not less. On 31 October, the adjective moved: Mullin told the Post the case was now "large" and named more than one target. The docket moved with it — the matter sits with Judge Boasberg, who is already overseeing the administration's deportation flights and California's voter rolls. The same day, Fox News reported the push to expel Omar is now aimed at a Supreme Court test of a precedent fifty years untested.

That is the file as it stood before the two newest pages. Both are dated 31 October. Both are from Fox News. Both are about the same congresswoman, and both move the story forward.…

…(cont) The first page is a roster. Omar has hired Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz — the attorneys who represented Joe Biden, who represented House Democrats through the Trump impeachment, and who represented E. Jean Carroll. All together now — follow the roster: this is not a first-time retainer. It is the team assembled when the opposing party is the federal government itself.

The second page is a concession, and it comes from the outlet that has carried every adjective in this file since the secretary's first one. Fox News's own explainer, filed the same day as the roster, states plainly that the power to expel a sitting member of Congress belongs to the Constitution and to the House it created — not to the president who keeps saying she must resign. Nineteen days after agents searched her home, the publication that has carried the administration's case has also carried, under its own byline, the sentence the case cannot get around.

“They ran "strong case," then "large case," like it's a drive-thru order, and today their own network has to admit the Constitution picks who fires a congresswoman, not the president. Omar didn't hire a public defender — she hired the same lawyers who stood up for Biden, for the House during impeachment, and for E. Jean Carroll. The same judge now holding this file is already running the deportation flights and the voter rolls, and that's not a coincidence, that's one docket doing a lot of work.”
Sal
“Hiring Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz just shows how rattled the — hold on, those are the lawyers who defended Biden and E. Jean Carroll, that's not exactly a reassuring résumé for us. Fine, the Constitution gives expulsion to Congress, not the president, but raising the question is basically governing too. Did I say that? That doesn't sound like me.”
Chip

Earlier in this story

The receipts

· Feds building case to deport ‘squad’ member Rep. Ilhan Omar as new details emerge about DHS raid from the morgue, 17 Oct 2026

This page is a back-issue: the story as it ran, receipts as they were. The current edition is at the front. The byline is a pen name for a column drafted by a machine and checked by the editor: how this is made.