Hunter Biden’s federal gun case in Delaware was officially terminated on Tuesday after President Joe Biden, his father, issued a sweeping pardon for his crimes.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who presided over the case, declared that “all proceedings in this case are hereby terminated” while citing the unprecedented nature of the blanket pardon, which covers a broad range of offenses over a decade-long time period.
However, the judge stopped short of dismissing the indictment outright.
The pardon, issued on Sunday, protects Hunter from prosecution for crimes committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. President Biden defended his action in a statement, saying, “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is…
