A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday cast serious doubts on the Justice Department’s efforts to reinvestigate President Trump’s false claims that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election, saying that the five-year statute of limitations for any possible crimes arising from the race had “long expired.”
The finding by the judge, William M. Ray II, came in a sternly worded order that quashed a grand jury subpoena that prosecutors had issued in April. The subpoena sought what the judge described as a “staggering” amount of personal information about thousands of election workers in Fulton County, Ga., who took part in the administration of the count — and recount — of the vote in 2020.
The judge’s determination that prosecutors had missed their window to bring charges stemming from the 2020 election was a decisive blow against the Justice Department’s attempts to bolster one of Mr. Trump’s loudest and longest-lasting falsehoods: that he lost the race to Joseph R. Biden Jr. only because of widespread fraud.
In service of the president’s claims, federal law enforcement has already undertaken an extraordinary series of investigative steps. In January, the F.B.I. sent agents to seize hundreds of boxes of records, including original ballots, from a Fulton County election warehouse. And just last week, the bureau deployed an army of F.B.I. analysts to sort through the seized materials.
While Judge Ray’s ruling did not stop prosecutors from pursuing their inquiry in...
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