宪法要求和极高的罢免门槛将给移除她的国会席位带来重大阻碍
作者：查德·珀格拉姆 福克斯新闻
发布时间：美国东部时间2026年10月26日晚8:14
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特朗普暗示，如果伊尔汗·奥马尔胜选连任，众议院可能拒绝为她核发议员席位。
福克斯新闻首席国会记者查德·珀格拉姆报道：总统唐纳德·特朗普呼吁众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔辞职，原因涉及她的姓名及法律身份问题。
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共和党人希望下周不会有太多民主党人胜选连任并重返国会大厦。共和党正在呼吁选民把这些民主党人赶出去。
但特朗普总统的目标是把一位很可能在深蓝选区胜选的民主党人逐出国会，此人就是明尼苏达州民主党众议员伊尔汗·奥马尔。两年前，她以近四分之三的得票率拿下了自己的选区。但特朗普总统质疑奥马尔是否合法居留在美国，因此是否有资格担任国会议员。
“她用假名字宣誓就职，”总统说，”她是个小麻烦制造者。”
美国司法部正在调查奥马尔可能涉及的移民欺诈行为。联邦当局最近突袭了她在华盛顿特区的住所，带走了17件物品，其中包括手机、笔记本、一台相机，以及给她孩子的索马里语手册。
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特朗普总统声称她的本名不是”伊尔汗·奥马尔”，而是”完全不同的名字：伊汗·努尔·赛义德·埃尔米，很接近本名”。
该调查的一份联邦文件将这位国会女议员的姓名列为”伊尔汗·努尔·赛义德·埃尔米，别名伊尔汗·阿卜杜拉希·奥马尔”。
这就是为什么总统称”她必须立即辞去国会议员职务”。
福克斯数字新闻的一名记者就她的姓名问题质问了这位国会女议员。
索马里说唱曲承诺”击溃”敌人，反衬出奥马尔湖边视频的沉稳画风
“您的名字是伊尔汗·赛义德、伊尔汗·努尔·赛义德·阿拉米，还是伊尔汗·阿卜杜拉希·奥马尔？”福克斯新闻的拉希德·乌马尔·阿巴西问道。
“伊尔汗·阿卜杜拉希·奥马尔。你知道的，”奥马尔回答。
“女士？”阿巴西追问以确认。
“我叫伊尔汗·阿卜杜拉希·奥马尔，”她证实道。
众议院书记官自2018年以来提交的15份不同财务披露报告中，均仅将这位国会女议员登记为”伊尔汗·奥马尔”——这一时间早于她进入国会之前。而她此前担任明尼苏达州州议员时，登记姓名的情况也是如此。
正是这种姓名差异促使特朗普总统要求众议院将奥马尔除名。
“她将不再具备在华盛顿那个庄严机构担任议员的合法资格，”特朗普总统说。
但这不是他能决定的事。
根据美国宪法第一条第五款，国会参众两院对本机构的议员资格拥有最终决定权。
至少有一名众议院共和党议员愿意探讨此事，但前提是事实足以支撑行动。
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（图片说明：美国总统唐纳德·特朗普于2026年10月24日在佐治亚州佩里的Guardian Centers举行的中期选举造势集会上发表讲话。特朗普此次集会旨在为佐治亚州共和党参议院候选人、试图挑战现任民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫的共和党众议员迈克·柯林斯，以及佐治亚州共和党州长候选人里克·杰克逊造势。图片来源：亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图片社）
“众议院有权决定是否为议员核发席位，也有权在认为必要时将议员逐出，”弗吉尼亚州共和党众议员摩根·格里菲斯表示，”但这么做必须有充分合理的理由。”
美国各州议会的规则不尽相同，但格里菲斯曾经历过类似情况：1988年，弗吉尼亚州议会曾纠结过是否允许某些议员担任该州公职的问题。
不过联邦国会的情况完全不同。
“这会是非常罕见的情况，应当只在极端特殊的情况下动用，”格里菲斯说。
笔者追问，达到什么标准才能阻止某人担任众议院议员。
“就像最高法院对色情内容的判定标准：我看到就知道，”格里菲斯引用已故大法官波特·斯图尔特在1964年一起关键淫秽色情案件中的言论打比方。
伊尔汗·奥马尔面临罢免威胁，共和党议员誓言因司法部调查将其逐出国会
如果众议院共和党决意采取行动（无论是否有确凿证据），他们有两种方式处置奥马尔。对众议员的任职资格要求相当简单：必须是美国公民，且为所代表州的居民，年龄不低于25岁。哪怕曾被定罪并服刑，也完全符合条件，宪法对其他所有资格条件都未作规定。即便履历完美无缺也无关紧要，众议院仍可对其采取行动。
第一种可行选项现在即可启动。宪法规定，参众两院有权以三分之二多数票通过罢免议员的决议。要罢免奥马尔似乎非常困难，尤其是她从未被判定有罪，即便被起诉，审判前也可能出现诸多其他问题。
由行政分支政府试图罢免立法分支的议员，这种情况本身就很反常。此外，众议院法律顾问很可能会反对联邦检察官调取奥马尔的官方众议院通讯设备及文件的任何企图，因为立法分支与行政分支之间存在名为”言论或辩论条款”的防火墙。美国宪法第一条第六款赋予议员与其职务相关的特权。因此，即便有人像部分人提议的那样试图将她驱逐出境，也与调取相关文件的难度不相上下——更何况她本身已是国会议员，整个问题都围绕罢免展开。
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此外，众议院三分之二的议员永远不会在缺乏铁证证明其有不当行为的情况下投票罢免一名议员，这也是众议院历史上仅6名议员被罢免的原因——上一次是2023年罢免前纽约州共和党众议员乔治·桑托斯。
不过，2025年1月新一届国会召集时，可能会出现是否反对奥马尔获得席位的争议。
1968年，时任纽约州民主党众议员亚当·克莱顿·鲍威尔面临刑事调查。众议院议长、马萨诸塞州民主党人约翰·麦考马克拒绝为鲍威尔核发议员席位，尽管他满足所有其他任职条件。最高法院在《鲍威尔诉麦考马克》案中裁定，如果候选人满足众议院议员的基本任职资格，众议院不得拒绝接纳其为议员。
特朗普移民政策的胜利可能会增强政府在即将到来的最高法院斗争中的筹码
话虽如此，仍可能出现拒绝为奥马尔核发议员席位的动议，甚至针对其他曾发表过涉嫌冒犯美国及宪法言论的进步派当选议员。此类动议将在众议院选举议长后立即提出，但议长尚未为其他议员宣誓就职。届时众议院将为所有议员宣誓就职，仅排除那些可能面临任职资格争议的当选议员。在为其他所有议员宣誓就职后，众议院可就拒绝罢免相关人员的动议进行投票，将动议搁置，或移交委员会调查。
1985年，众议院未为印第安纳州民主党众议员弗兰克·麦克洛斯基宣誓就职，而是决定调查他是否在该州赢得席位。众议院数月未为麦克洛斯基宣誓就职。
根据《鲍威尔诉麦考马克》案的判决，很难想象众议院会拒绝为某人核发席位，但参照麦克洛斯基案，众议院可能不会立即作出决定。
当然，众议院总是可能先为某人核发席位再将其罢免——这并不违反《鲍威尔诉麦考马克》案的判决。但考虑到众议院历史上仅罢免过6名议员，这种情况也不太可能发生。
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to why removing Ilhan Omar from Congress could be harder than Trump expects
Constitutional requirements and a high threshold for expulsion would present significant obstacles to remove her from Congress
By Chad Pergram Fox News
Published October 26, 2026 8:14pm EDT
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Trump suggests House could refuse to seat Ilhan Omar if she wins reelection
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on President Donald Trump’s calls for Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign amid questions about her name and legal status.
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Republicans hope there are lots of Democrats who won’t win re-election next week and return to Capitol Hill. Republicans are imploring voters to kick them out.
But President Trump is focused on bouncing one Democrat from Congress who likely wins re-election in a solidly blue district. That’s Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). She carried her district two years ago with nearly three-quarters of the vote. But President Trump questions whether Omar is in the country legally and, therefore, qualified to sit in Congress.
“She used a fake name to be sworn in,” said the President. “She’s a little troublemaker.”
The Department of Justice is investigating Omar for potential immigration fraud. Federal authorities raided her Washington, DC home recently and removed 17 items. That included phones, notebooks, a camera and a Somali phrase book for her kids.
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An image of Ilhan Omar overlaid over her neighborhood in DC.(Getty Images)
President Trump suggests that her name is not “Ilhan Omar” and that it’s “an entirely different name name. Ihan Nur Sayeed Elmi. It’s close.”
A federal filing in that inquiry lists the Congresswoman’s name as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.”
That’s why the President says “she must immediately resign from Congress.”
A reporter for Fox Digital confronted the Congresswoman about her name.
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“Is your name Ilhan Sayed, Ilhan Nur Sayed Alami, or Ilhan Abdullahi Omar?” asked Rashid Umar Abbasi, working for Fox.
“Ilhan Abdullahi Omar. You know it,” replied Omar.
“Ma’am?” asked Abbasi for clarification.
“It’s Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” she confirmed.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives officially lists the Congresswoman as solely “Ilhan Omar” on 15 different financial disclosure reports dating back to 2018. That’s even before she entered Congress. The same with the Minnesota state legislature where Omar served prior to coming to Washington.
The discrepancy is why the President wants the House to banish Omar.
“She will not be legally allowed to be a member of that august body that sits in Washington,” said President Trump.
But it’s not his call.
However, Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution grants both bodies of Congress final authority about who it admits to its membership.
At least one House Republican is willing to explore that. But only if the facts merit it.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a midterm campaign rally at the Guardian Centers on October 24, 2026, in Perry, Georgia. Trump is speaking at a rally in support of Georgia Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), who is trying to unseat the incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), and Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson.(Alex Wong / Getty Images)
“The House has the prerogative to seat or not seat and to throw Members out if it so chooses,” said Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.). “There ought to be good sound reasons for it.”
It’s a different set of rules, but Griffith had experience with this as the Virginia House of Delegates grappled with a similar issue about seating lawmakers in the Commonwealth in 1988.
But Congress is altogether different.
“It would be extraordinary. And it should be extraordinary and it should not be used except in extraordinary circumstances,” said Griffith.
Yours truly asked what would meet that bar to block someone from serving in the House.
“It’s like the Supreme Court said about pornography. I’ll know it when I see it,” said Griffith, paraphrasing late Justice Potter Stewart from a key 1964 obscenity case.
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House Republicans have two options to deal with Omar if they are truly determined to take action – regardless of what is proven or not. Qualifications for the House are pretty simple. You must be a citizen and a resident of the state you are representing. And, you must be 25 years old. You could even be convicted of a crime and serving time in jail. The Constitution is silent on all other credentials. You could also have a resume which is without a blemish. It doesn’t matter. The House could still take action against you.
The first conceivable option could come now. The Constitution grants the House and Senate the right to expel Members – provided there’s a two-thirds vote. Any scenario to expel Omar seems remarkable. Especially since she hasn’t been convicted of a crime. And even if she is charged, there are lots of other issues which could emerge before a trial.
It would be strange to have the executive branch of government trying to remove a Member of the legislative branch of government. Moreover, it’s likely that the House counsel would contest any effort by federal prosecutors to procure Omar’s official House communication devices as well as documents. There’s a firewall between the legislative branch and executive branch known as the “Speech or Debate Clause.” Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution grants lawmakers privileges tied to their official duties. So getting those papers — let alone potentially deporting her as some have suggested – is a far cry. Especially since she’s a Member and this all hinges on expulsion.
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Moreover, two-thirds of the House will never vote to expel a Member under these circumstances unless there’s ironclad proof of wrongdoing. That’s why the House has only expelled six Members in its history. The last was former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) in 2023.
However, what may be an issue is whether or not there could be an objection to seating Omar when the new Congress convenes in January.
In 1968, then Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY) faced a criminal investigation. House Speaker John McCormack (D-Mass.) refused to seat Powell – even though he met all other requirements. The Supreme Court ruled in Powell v. McCormack that the House can’t exclude a Member if they meet the basic standards to serve in the House.
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That said, it’s possible there could be motions not to seat Omar – or even other progressive Members-elect who have said controversial things about the U.S. and Constitution. Such a motion would come right after the House chooses a Speaker. But the Speaker has not sworn-in the rest of the Members. The House would then swear-in everyone – except the Member or Members-elect who may face questions about serving. Once the House swears in the rest of the body, it can then vote on a motion not to expel those persons, table the motion, or refer the motion to a committee for investigation.
In 1985, the House did not swear-in Rep. Frank McCloskey (D-Ind.) and decided to investigate whether or not he won his seat in the Hoosier State. The House didn’t swear-in McCloskey for several months.
Based on Powell v. McCormack, it’s hard to envision a scenario where the House declines to seat someone. But it might not do it immediately based on the McCloskey case.
Of course, it’s always probable that the House could seat someone – and then expel them. That doesn’t collide headlong with the Powell decision. But considering that the House has only expelled six members, those circumstances are doubtful, too.
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What’s in a name? Especially for Ilhan Omar. Her adversaries may raise questions about her name. But it’s doubtful they can do anything about her position.
Chad Pergram currently serves as Chief Congressional Correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.
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