Boasberg's Omar Warrant

Federal Judge James Boasberg is overseeing media outlets’ challenge seeking to unseal the search warrant for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home, as well as several other cases involving the Trump administration. The cases have renewed questions about judicial assignments: D.C. federal cases are generally assigned randomly, but exceptions apply, and the court need not publicly explain reassignments. Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan and lawmakers have called for greater transparency, while a bill requiring fully random assignments, introduced by Sen. Eric Schmitt in July, remains stalled in committee.

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