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The Untested Self-Pardon

10-5-2024 < Attack the System 49 294 words
 
“The answer is open in part because no president except Trump has ever been charged with a crime,” reports Axios. “But it’s also the result of a failure on Congress’s part to prohibit the potential practice through a constitutional amendment, though some members of Congress have tried to do so.”

Hunter’s guns: “A federal judge in Delaware denied Hunter Biden’s bid to throw out his felony gun charges on Thursday, rejecting arguments from the president’s son that the federal prohibition on owning guns while using illegal drugs is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment,” reports Politico.

Biden the younger was charged in 2023 with buying a gun while using illegal drugs—he notoriously had a crack cocaine problem at the time of the purchase, in 2018—as well as lying about the drug use on a government form while buying the weapon.


“Separately, a federal appeals court panel ruled against Biden earlier Thursday in another bid to have the charges against him tossed,” reports Politico. “The two decisions appear to clear the way for his case to head to trial on June 3, though his defense team can still pursue further appeals.”


“Hunter Biden’s multiplying gun charges threaten the right to arms and the right to trial,” wrote Reason‘s Jacob Sullum last year. “Survey data suggest that millions of gun owners are guilty of violating 18 USC 922(g)(3) because they consume arbitrarily proscribed intoxicants (mainly marijuana). Yet fewer than 150 Americans are prosecuted for that crime each year. Even when gun buyers (including people who are disqualified for other reasons, such as felony records) are caught lying on Form 4473, they are rarely prosecuted.” It’s almost like an example is being made of Hunter Biden, whose legal argument is in stark opposition to the Biden administration’s position on the matter.

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