In Re Prosecution of Crawley

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• holding that the D.C. Council could not reassign prosecutions under the false claims statute to the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
• describing the \bifurcat[ion]\ of \prosecuting authority for crimes committed in the District\
• describing the “bifurcat[ion]” of “prosecuting authority for crimes committed in the District”
• “[0]nly Congress can alter the prosecutorial authority [of OAG], be it for felonies, misdemeanors, or other crimes .... ”
• “[W]e hold that only Congress can alter the prosecutorial authority described in Section 23-101(c), be it for felonies, misdemeanors, or other crimes that fall within that subsection.”
• “With time, the 24 Board of Commissioners became more than a mere administrative agency, possessing significant legislative authority obtained by a broad delegation of police power from Congress to promulgate reasonable and usual police regulations.”

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