Credit: Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesObama-appointed Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the same activist jurist President Trump once branded a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator,” is now the man deciding whether the public gets to see the search warrant that authorized federal agents to raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C. home earlier this month.According to Fox News, the battle landed on Boasberg’s docket after more than a dozen news organizations and Judicial Watch filed requests to unseal the warrant, affidavits, returns, and related records from the October 12 pre-dawn search by Homeland Security Investigations agents.U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office has pushed back hard, telling the court that unsealing the materials now “imperils the investigation” because the warrant has not been fully executed and no charging decision has been announced.Prosecutors have argued the media’s demand is premature and that no court has previously unsealed warrant-related documents while execution remains ongoing and an investigation is active.They do not rule out releasing redacted versions later so the public can see how the process unfolded, but they want Boasberg to reject the requests for now.As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, HSI agents arrived at Omar’s residence around 6 a.m. on October 12 and spent hours carrying out boxes of evidence as part of a criminal probe focused on alleged immigration fraud tied to paperwork filed by her late father and related family issues.A DOJ spokesperson confirmed at the time that the action was a judicially authorized search warrant executed as part of an ongoing federal investigation.Subsequent reporting detailed that agents seized phones, a laptop, notebooks, and a passport, while family members including Omar’s sister were subpoenaed.The Gateway Pundit also broke details from court filings identifying the target on the warrant as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” and noted that the warrant itself had still not been fully executed weeks later, likely reflecting the need to screen any official congressional material protected by the Speech or Debate Clause before searching devices.The magistrate who originally signed off on the warrant was Matthew Sharbaugh, not Boasberg. Yet the high-profile fight over public access now sits with the chief judge whose prior rulings against Trump administration immigration enforcement drew national attention.In March 2025, Boasberg temporarily blocked deportation flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, prompting Trump’s sharp criticism and calls for impeachment.Boasberg later pursued contempt-related proceedings over the administration’s handling of those flights, actions that higher courts have repeatedly constrained or overturned.Critics have long pointed to his record on January 6 cases and other matters as evidence of a pattern of aggressive intervention against conservative priorities.Omar has denied wrongdoing, framed the probe as political persecution, and said she plans to move out of the apartment citing death threats.More than 170 House Democrats recently demanded the DOJ and DHS drop the investigation entirely, calling the raid “weaponization.”Border Czar Tom Homan has previously stated that proven immigration fraud could lead to denaturalization and deportation proceedings, though he noted such a process would be lengthy.The post Radical Lawless Judge Boasberg Is Presiding Over Fight to Unseal Warrant Used to Raid Ilhan Omar’s Home appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.