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Rahimi and the Second Amendment: How The Supreme Court Intercepts Hunter Biden’s Hail Mary Pass

JonathanTurley

Hunter and his legal team were counting on the Court striking down the federal gun law at issue in the case of United States v. Hunter was just convicted by a unanimous jury in Delaware for false statements on a gun form and possession of a firearm as a drug addict. That brings us back to Hunter. It almost worked. They were wrong.

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Did the Defense Make Prison More Likely for Hunter Under the Sentencing Guidelines?

JonathanTurley

Given the calculation for the three felonies, the defense had to know that they were increasing the chances of prison time by pursuing a nullification defense. The hope was that Wilmington is Bidentown and no local jury would convict the son of the favorite son of Delaware. It didn’t work out that way.

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“Patently False”: Special Counsel Files Blistering Reply to Hunter Biden Motion to Dismiss

JonathanTurley

The filing begins by outright accusing Hunter Biden and his counsel of lying to the court about what occurred after the earlier plea agreement fell apart in court after the judge in Delaware asked about a sweeping immunity clause in paragraph 14. ” The rest of the filing is equally devastating.

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Hunter Biden Loses Game of Chicken With Himself

JonathanTurley

The Justice Department was never going over the cliff because they had nothing to gain or lose in open-and-shut cases in Delaware and California. There was never a serious question of convicting Hunter of these crimes , just a will of the Justice Department to secure them. They did and Weiss was forced to actually prosecute Hunter.

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DOJ to Devon Archer: Go Ahead and Testify. and Then We Can Jail You

JonathanTurley

After the debacle in Delaware where the Justice Department seemed entirely confused on its own filings, the letters only reaffirmed the image of a department adrift in this expanding scandal. The optics could not be worse and many took the letter as an effort to intimate Archer.

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Hunter Biden Discovers There is No “Nicer” Way to Say “I’m Guilty”

JonathanTurley

This burning train then continued down the track to California where the team insisted that it would make the same addiction defense that failed in Delaware. Weiss allowed major felonies to expire for now explicable reasons and refused to indict Biden for being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

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Did the Biden Administration Just Give a Boost To the Hunter Biden Defense?

JonathanTurley

By bringing this action as a civil lawsuit, the Justice Department may have undercut the ongoing investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, into Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings. The lawsuit under the Foreign Agents Registration Act is bad news for Wynn, but it may be a win for another potential target: Hunter Biden.