Published January 16, 2024
Hunter Biden’s legal team has misinterpreted U.S. Supreme Court guidance by arguing there is no historical precedent for preventing people with a history of substance abuse from possessing guns, the DOJ said.
“Anglo-American law has long recognized that the government may disarm those who, by their conduct or characteristics, present an increased risk to public safety if they possess firearms,” the DOJ said in a court filing in Delaware.
Hunter Biden, 53, was indicted in September on charges of lying about his drug use when he bought a firearm in 2018, becoming the first child of a sitting president to be charged with a felony.
His attorney Abbe Lowell asked the federal judge to dismiss the case in December, arguing that the law used to charge Hunter Biden was likely unconstitutional based on a recent Supreme Court ruling on the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which protects the right to possess firearms.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2022 in a case known as New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen that gun restrictions must be consistent with the U.S. “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” Legal experts said the ruling might protect the younger Biden from prosecution.
The DOJ said laws dating back to 1328 in England have restricted people who were considered dangerous from possessing weapons. It said language from those laws were applied in the United States at the time of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
RELATED: Hunter Biden Contempt of Congress on Hold Amid Negotiations to Schedule New Deposition
Published January 16, 2024
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday announced that Hunter Biden’s contempt of Congress charge will no longer be considered as House Republicans negotiate with Biden and his attorneys.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, House Republicans announced on Sunday they will issue a second deposition subpoena to Hunter Biden after he blew off the first deposition and instead delivered a speech inside the US Capitol the day of his first deposition.
Hunter blew off his first deposition and then last week went and sat inside the US House of Representatives contempt hearing and mocked the committee’s weakness “in a choreographed stunt reportedly filmed for an upcoming documentary.”
In a strongly worded letter, the committee wrote, “The Committees welcome Mr. Biden’s newfound willingness to testify in a deposition setting under subpoena. Although the Committee’s subpoenas are lawful and remain legally enforceable, as an accommodation to Mr. Biden and at your request, we are prepared to issue subpoenas compelling Mr. Biden’s appearance at a deposition on a new date in the coming weeks. To be clear, the issuance of these subpoenas does not in any way suggest or imply that the Committees believe the assertions in your January 12 letter to have any merit. Our willingness to issue these subpoenas is rooted entirely in our interest in obtaining Mr. Biden’s testimony as expeditiously as possible.”
After the House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday approved a resolution to hold Joe Biden’s crackhead son in contempt of Congress, Hunter Biden finally agreed to testify to Congress, The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday.
This was after Biden defied a subpoena by failing to appear for a deposition about his shady business dealings last month.
Instead of showing up, Hunter spoke on the Senate lawn.
During the press conference, Hunter obliterated Joe Biden’s defense against corruption allegations by telling his friends in the far-left DC media, “My father was not financially involved in my business.” Of course, Joe Biden was heavily involved in his son Hunter’s overseas business–just not financially, says Hunter.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Hunter Biden Gets Bad News as Congressional Contempt Vote Looms: ‘His Defiance … Has Been Willful and Flagrant’
Published January 15, 2024
It looks like Hunter Biden’s last-name-based luck is finally running out.
The GOP House Judiciary recently released on social media platform X an excerpt of a letter from the House to Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, the whole of which was linked in the comments.
Within, the House castigated the young Biden for skipping his scheduled private deposition on Dec. 7, 2023, informing Biden and his lawyer that the House is going to vote on whether or not he should be held in contempt of Congress for skipping the deposition, unless he chooses to obey a series of new subpoenas.
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1746559869602165057?s=20
Even worse, Biden used that time to make a public speech in front of the steps of Capitol Hill, whining that the “MAGA right” was using his “mistakes” as a weapon against his father.
Because of that, the House is recommending Biden be held in contempt of court for this transgression, writing to his lawyer that his “defiance of the subpoenas has been willful and flagrant,” and “he must appear for a deposition that conforms to the House Rules and the rules and practices of the Committees, just like every other witness before the Committees.”
Therefore, according to Politico, the House Republicans “will move forward with a vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, unless they reach a deal with his team for an interview,” with the vote scheduled for this Thursday.
That said, in the interests of “obtaining Mr. Biden’s testimony as expeditiously as possible,” the House explained at the end of the letter that though “the Committee’s subpoenas are lawful and remain legally enforceable, as an accommodation to Mr. Biden and at your request, we are prepared to issue subpoenas compelling Mr. Biden’s appearance at a deposition on a new date in the coming weeks.”
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SOURCE: www.westernjournal.com
