U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, the federal judge for Delaware, denied Hunter Biden’s efforts to dismiss gun charges against the son of the President, who argued that he was being prosecuted for political goals, the Associated Press reports. Biden’s lawyers argued the fact that they had a deal in place on lesser charges, but the charges were increased after political fallout from media coverage of the deal’s dismissal.
“The pressure campaign from Congressional Republicans may have occurred around the time that Special Counsel decided to move forward with indictment instead of pretrial diversion, but the Court has been given nothing credible to suggest that the conduct of those lawmakers (or anyone else) had any impact on Special Counsel,” Noreika wrote. “It is all speculation.”