a deadline sits on the calendar: january 3rd, 2027, the cutoff for removing rep. ilhan omar elmi from office and stopping her from taking a seat in the next Congress. the case behind it, per a Fox report, goes back to minnesota republican state lawmakers asking the IRS in august 2019 to take a detailed second look at her tax filings, after a state board report indicated she'd signed joint returns alongside someone other than the spouse she had at the time. one of those lawmakers says the agency never answered. the argument here is blunt: pirate, deport her, fraudulent activity. that's the claim being made, not a ruling