While few people could claim to be surprised by President Joe Biden’s pardon of First Son Hunter, Special Counsel David Weiss may have thrown a few folks with the responses filed by his office Monday — in both the Delaware gun case and the California tax case — opposing Hunter’s bid to have the charges against him dismissed in both matters.
Now, before anyone gets the wrong idea, these filings by the Government will not affect Hunter’s pardon. He’s got his extraordinarily generously broad Get Out of Jail Free Card in hand, and he will not be spending any time in a cell — at least not for any of his criminal behavior spanning January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024.
The point the Government is raising in the pleadings is that dismissal is not the appropriate action for the court to take in the face of the pardon; rather, Weiss argues, the court should…
