If House Republicans move ahead with criminal referrals rather than the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, they could still face a dead end, according to retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano on Newsmax.

“If the events that are the subject of the criminal referral took place more than five years ago, the DOJ won’t even consider it,” Napolitano, the network’s senior judicial analyst told Wednesday’s “National Report.” “It can’t consider it. The statute of limitations is an absolute bar, except when the defendant runs out of the country. That is not the case here.”

Many of the allegations being made about the president and his son, Hunter Biden, go back several years, and would not fall within the five-year mark, “so a criminal referral for events that happened more than five years ago would be “symbolic,” Napolitano said.

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