• DreamerofDays@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Because it happened before Congress, I doubt a prosecutor would touch it. There’s specifically a lot of latitude given for purportedly acting as an elected official. It would probably take her saying, repeatedly, that she wasn’t presenting it as a congressperson but as a private citizen to overcome that hurdle.

    But I am not a lawyer, and I’ll defer to someone with better information who contradicts me.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that was my thinking as well. This seems like a political football that DC prosecutors would hesitate to touch.