Hunter Biden’s attorneys asked federal judges to dismiss tax and gun cases against him on Thursday, taking their lead from a Florida ruling earlier this week that led to the classified documents being dropped against Donald Trump. Attorneys for the president’s son argued that the special counsel appointed to investigate and bring charges against Biden was unlawfully appointed. They claimed - as Trump’s legal team did - that the office of the Special Counsel was not properly appointed because Congress should have voted to confirm its establishment. Trump’s team sucessfully...

Attorneys for President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, citing the recent decision by a federal judge in Florida to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump, filed a pair of motions in California and Delaware Thursday seeking to dismiss both federal criminal cases against him. "The Attorney General relied upon the exact same authority to appoint the Special Counsel in both the Trump and Biden matters, and both appointments are invalid for the same reason," attorneys for Biden argued in the filings. U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon ruled this...

Hunter Biden's legal team using Judge Aileen Cannon's recent ruling in Donald Trump's documents case. On Monday, Cannon agreed to dismiss Trump's case in Florida over the theft of classified documents and other related charges under the guise that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional. The whole case was dismissed because the special counsel funding was unconstitutional, the judge held. Legal analysts warned that the decision was likely a . "I'm sure a lot of viewers are going, but what are you talking about? Special counsel Mueller was a...

Hunter Biden asked judges Thursday to dismiss his criminal charges, claiming the special counsel appointed to investigate him was unlawfully appointed and funded. The requests come just days after a different federal judge found that Attorney General Merrick Garland unlawfully appointed special counsel Jack Smith to investigate former President Trump, dismissing charges against him in his classified documents case. The special counsel appointed to investigate Hunter Biden — President Biden’s son — is David Weiss, who is also U.S. attorney for Delaware.

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, walks upon arrival at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2024. Lawyers for Hunter Biden on Thursday asked federal judges in California and Delaware to dismiss the criminal cases against him in their courts, citing a recent opinion by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the related dismissal this week of the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Biden’s lawyers in motions filed in both courts pointed to those two opinions — which questioned the...

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Lawyers for Hunter Biden on Thursday asked a federal judge to toss his criminal gun case conviction, citing a recent concurrence by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the dismissal this week of the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.

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Biden’s legal counsel pointed to those separate rulings in a motion that argued U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the special counsel who investigated President Joe Biden’s son, was unconstitutionally appointed.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers are using Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the Trump classified documents case to request the dismissal of his own special counsel conviction. Here is the Hunter Biden filing: Aileen Cannon’s haphazard dismissal of the Trump classified documents case has opened the door for absolute chaos, Cannon’s order that claimed special counsels are illegal appointments means that the Hur investigation into President Biden’s classified documents investigation.