DOJ begs judge to hide Dem raid warrant that's not 'fully executed' until after midterms

President Donald Trump's Justice Department asked a judge for a delay that would keep the warrant for the unusual raid on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) secret through the midterm elections.Lawyers in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office asked Chief Judge James Boasberg in a motion filed Wednesday to push back the deadlines for answering three requests to unseal the warrant records.Neither of the two timelines the government proposed would release the records before the election on Nov. 3.“[G]ood cause exists to extend these deadlines until after the subject search warrant has been fully executed,” the motion insists.The motion does not say when that will happen or what work remains. The government also asked to submit its reasons in a separate, sealed, ex parte memo, meaning only the judge would see it.Under the government’s main proposal, the motion says, a new deadline for its response would be set only...