U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has confirmed her DOJ office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures, which jumped tens of millions of dollars in 2024.
There is also scrutiny over Omar’s arrival into the United States, supposedly at the age of 17, and the Feds are examining the long-whispered allegation she married her own brother to get around U.S. immigration laws. HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, is examining her immigration paper trail.
AFR host and legal analyst Jenna Ellis told AFN the U.S. House maintains its own legal counsel on who can be a member — no matter what a federal court may rule.
“The House could decide whether Omar has met the constitution's requirement of having been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years,” she advised.
If the House votes to expel her for “disorderly conduct,” that vote is permitted under Article 1, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution. That action would require two-thirds of lawmakers to vote in favor, so that fate is an unlikely one.
Such a floor vote is rare but it happened in December 2023, when lawmakers voted 311-114 to expel Rep. George Santos, a New York Republican.
A recent legal article at Reason, the libertarian-leaning website, examined the Constitution and concluded the Trump administration is attempting to strip Rep. Omar of her U.S. citizenship, which is called denaturalization. A key phrase is that Omar is required to be a U.S. citizen for seven years before taking office, the authors wrote.
Rep. Omar was first elected to Congress in 2018 from Minnesota's deep-blue 5th Congressional District. She is currently serving her fourth consecutive term and is on the November 3 ballot to win another term.
Ellis said her advice to Omar is to step aside now.
“She should just step down now, even before re-election, so that they can have someone else on the ticket and potentially retain that seat,” Ellis said.
