A government watchdog has called on the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to look into whether officials violated the Hatch Act in their search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home.
The special counsel should investigate officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ), including Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, to see whether they violated the Hatch Act, lawyers with the Democracy Defenders Fund and Richard Painter, an ethics official during the George W. Bush administration, said in an Oct. 13 letter to Special Counsel Charles Baldis.
The search of Omar’s home “appears to be timed to influence voters in the upcoming midterm election,” they wrote….