Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home Monday morning. Within hours, Omar had called it "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement." Within hours after that, the usual chorus of allies and sympathetic commentators picked up the same refrain: lawfare, intimidation, political persecution.

Here's what actually happened, in the order it happened. Homeland Security Investigations agents, a branch of DHS that handles criminal investigations, executed a search warrant. The Justice Department confirmed it was "judicially authorized" — meaning a federal judge, not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not some administration official with a grudge, reviewed an application establishing probable cause and signed off on it. That's not a press release. That's a constitutional checkpoint. The Fourth Amendment doesn't let federal agents kick in a congresswoman's door because they feel like it. It requires a judge, sworn to an independent branch of government, to look at sworn evidence and agree there's enough there to justify the intrusion. One did.

The investigation itself reportedly centers on Omar's immigration paperwork — allegations that trace back to Vice President JD Vance's prior public claims that she........

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