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Ilhan Omar files for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi


Pretty fair article. Omar doesn't seem to understand law.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/464668-ilhan-omar-files-for-divorce

Omar and Hirsi became engaged in 2002 but never legally married. The pair had two children together before separating in 2008.

Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and later said the two obtained a divorce in their Muslim faith tradition — albeit not a legal one — in 2011.

Omar and Hirsi reconciled after that and had a third child together in 2012. The lawmaker officially filed to divorce Elmi in 2017, and legally married Hirsi in 2018.

Earlier this year, a Minnesota campaign finance board's investigation found that the 38-year-old freshman congresswoman and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015, while she was still legally married to Elmi.

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