It varies from state to state, but in DC (which I suspect would have jurisdiction in this case), it’s classed as a felony. Whether or not she’s actually indicted is another matter, though.
Of course, she may have civil liability as well if Biden decides to take her to civil court for harassment. Buuuut… I think that’s also unlikely. Cases like that have a way of “boosting the signal” (see Streisand Effect), and Biden senior probably doesn’t want people gossiping over his son’s dick any more than they already will be in an election year.
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.
It varies from state to state, but in DC (which I suspect would have jurisdiction in this case), it’s classed as a felony. Whether or not she’s actually indicted is another matter, though.
Of course, she may have civil liability as well if Biden decides to take her to civil court for harassment. Buuuut… I think that’s also unlikely. Cases like that have a way of “boosting the signal” (see Streisand Effect), and Biden senior probably doesn’t want people gossiping over his son’s dick any more than they already will be in an election year.
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.
Yeah, that was my thinking as well. This seems like a political football that DC prosecutors would hesitate to touch.