Federal agents raided Ilhan Omar's home and walked out with her phone three weeks before Election Day.
Now Alan Dershowitz laid out what happens next.
Dershowitz says resignation is just the beginning of what is coming for Omar.
The Ilhan Omar Citizenship Case Comes Down to One Number Her Father Gave the Government
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz sat down with Greta Van Susteren on Newsmax and opened with a prediction about embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar.
"I think she will resign from Congress," Dershowitz said. "I don't think that she's going to want to see congressional investigations."
Resignation was the least of it.
Dershowitz said the central question is Omar's date of birth – the one her father may have falsified so she could qualify for citizenship through him when he was naturalized in 2000.
Federal law allows children to derive citizenship from a parent, but only if they are under 18.
Dershowitz argued Omar was over 18 at the time.
"If that's true, she's done," Dershowitz told Newsmax. "Her naturalization can be undone. She can be deported. She can be forced to leave Congress."
One of the sharpest legal minds in the country mapped out the mechanism that strips a sitting congresswoman of her citizenship and puts her on a deportation flight to Somalia.
Dershowitz also covered the statute of limitations – the first card Omar's lawyers will play – and dismissed it. He argued the fraud qualifies as an ongoing conspiracy, which means the clock on prosecution never started where her team thinks it did.
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Jeanine Pirro Opens a Separate Ilhan Omar Investigation Over a 30 Million Dollar Accounting Error
Washington U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed she has opened a separate inquiry into Omar's financial disclosures – and the filing itself tells the story.
Omar claimed assets between $6 million and $30 million, then quietly revised that down to between $18,000 and $95,000.
She blamed an accounting error.
A $30 million accounting error.
"There are several investigations going on," Pirro told Fox News. "If there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted."
When agents searched Omar's Washington home on October 12, they walked out with her phone, her notebooks, and her personal computers.
"That judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause," Pirro said.
Investigators also issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas to Omar's relatives.
A federal court filing from Pirro's office identified the congresswoman not as Ilhan Omar but as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar."
That alias is the last name of Ahmed Nur Said Elmi – the man conservatives have alleged for years was her brother, not her husband.
Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News the government has a "strong case."
Omar's legal team wrote to the Justice Department this week demanding the return of seized property and calling the search "neither justified nor lawful."
The DOJ called their letter "riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies."
Omar is counting on Democrats winning the House on November 3 to give her cover.
Republicans control Congress until the new class is seated in January.
"Right now it's in the hands of the Justice Department," Dershowitz said. "And I think they're doing a good job."
The Denaturalization Push That Could Strip Ilhan Omar of Her Citizenship and Deport Her
The Trump Justice Department has filed at least 163 denaturalization cases since January 2025 – nearly seven times what Biden managed in four entire years.
Senator Eric Schmitt introduced the SCAM Act – the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation Act – specifically in response to rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota, where hundreds of millions of federal dollars meant to feed children were stolen and wired to luxury hotels and overseas accounts.
"The Somali fraud scandal is one of the greatest financial scandals in American history," Schmitt said. "Citizenship obtained by fraud is stolen status."
Omar represents the Minneapolis district at the center of that scandal, and the Trump administration is treating her as the face of a decade-long criminal enterprise rather than a paperwork problem.
Dershowitz knows she has no path through this. Resignation is how she tries to get ahead of what comes next.
Sources:
- Solange Reyner, "Dershowitz to Newsmax: Omar Likely to Resign Amid Federal Probe," Newsmax, October 23, 2026.
- Mike LaChance, "Legendary Law Prof Alan Dershowitz on Ilhan Omar: 'In Much Deeper Trouble Than She's Willing to Admit'," The Gateway Pundit, October 24, 2026.
- "Case Against Ilhan Omar Includes DNA, Passport, Messages From Her Sister," Voz.us, October 20, 2026.
- "Senator Schmitt Introduces Bill to Expand Denaturalization Process," schmitt.senate.gov, January 2026.
- "Senator Schmitt Chairs Hearing on Denaturalization: 'American Citizenship is Sacred'," schmitt.senate.gov, June 4, 2026.
- Jeanine Pirro, Interview, Fox News, October 2026.
