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Ilhan Omar: “There was a ban on hats and headwear, and what people didn't…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Does anyone, like, look at you and go, does anyone say anything about it? Or was everyone like, yeah, yeah, this, this makes sense? I mean, so it's interesting because There was a ban on hats and headwear, and what people didn't realize is that it made it unconstitutional to apply it to me, because we are supposed to have religious liberty in this country, so it would have applied a religious test. And so lifting it is just upholding our Constitution. And people are like, oh, they did her a favor, and all of these people are changing things for her. (00:57–01:18)

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