Hunter Biden’s legal team filed a motion on Thursday to dismiss cases brought by special counsel David Weiss against the president’s son, citing a recent opinion authored by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Hunter Biden is trying to pull a Trump card and have his criminal conviction on gun charges thrown out and another case of tax evasion dismissed, citing a recent controversial ruling that declared special counsels to be unconstitutional Special counsel David Weiss secured Biden’s conviction in Delaware federal court last month on charges that he lied about his illegal drug use when buying a gun. Weiss is also pursuing the tax case against Biden, in which he has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go to trial in September,...

Hunter Biden’s legal team has requested the dismissal of cases against him in Delaware and California citing the “unconstitutional” appointment of special counsel David Weiss.

Judge Aileen Cannon, the heavily scrutinized judge handling former President Trump’s federal classified documents case in Florida, dismissed Trump’s indictment Monday using the same justification as Biden’s attorneys: the unconstitutional appointment of the investigation’s special counsel.

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, asked federal judges on Thursday to dismiss tax and gun cases against him, citing a ruling in Florida this week that threw out a separate prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The requests in federal court in Delaware and California underscore the potential ramifications of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal Monday of the classified documents case against Trump and the possibility that it could unsettle the legal landscape surrounding Justice Department special counsels.

President Joe Biden’s adult son, Hunter Biden, 54, filed motions to dismiss his federal indictments in Delaware and California by citing the recent dismissal of Donald Trump’s federal indictment in Florida. Attorneys for the convicted, younger Biden filed the motions on Friday in district courts, arguing that special counsel David Weiss lacks the jurisdiction and authority to have brought the cases. The two motions are substantially similar — diverging only in their slight references to the charges faced in each particular federal district. In June, Hunter Biden was convicted of...

US President Joe Biden's son Hunter asked federal judges on Thursday to toss out gun and tax cases filed against him, citing a legal argument made by Donald Trump. Hunter Biden, 54, was convicted in Delaware in June on federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. He also faces tax evasion charges in California and is scheduled to go on trial in September. In filings on Thursday with district court judges in Delaware and California, Hunter Biden's lawyers asked that...

The motion was made after a federal judge in Florida dismissed Trump’s classified documents case finding the special counsel was unlawfully appointed. Attorneys for Hunter Biden on July 18 moved to dismiss his federal gun case, in which a jury returned a guilty verdict, on June 11, arguing special counsel David Weiss had no jurisdiction to prosecute. Mr. Biden had previously already filed a motion to dismiss arguing Mr. Weiss was improperly funded before the trial, and is now arguing he was improperly appointed as well, citing new authority. First,...

First son Hunter Biden on Thursday sought to have the charges against him in two court cases dismissed because of the special counsel appointment in his cases, after a judge dismissed former President Donald Trump's classified documents case. Judge Aileen Cannon ruled on Monday that Trump's classified documents case violated the appointments clause of the United States Constitution because of the unlawful appointment of Jack Smith as the case's special counsel. Smith comes from outside of the Justice Department, and was not confirmed by the Senate, which must approve U.S....

US District Court Judge Aileen Cannon — who was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump — dismissed the former president's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case earlier this week, which The Washington Post reports is "what many legal scholars considered the strongest criminal case against the" MAGA hopeful "and the one that was on the surest legal footing." Now, Hunter Biden is seeking "to dismiss the criminal tax and gun cases against him," and using Cannon's ruling to justify his reasoning, according to CNBC. Characterizing special counsel Jack Smith as a...