Hunter Biden’s legal team will argue in court for the dismissal of tax charges

Hunter Biden‘s attorneys will appear in court in California on Wednesday to make the case that a judge should dismiss the nine tax charges brought against the first son by special counsel David Weiss.

Judge Mark Scarsi will hear from both defense attorneys and prosecutors at 1:00 p.m. local time in Los Angeles about the several arguments Biden has filed in court regarding why he believes his tax charges should be dropped.

It is unclear if the first son will be present for the hearing. His attorney did not respond to a request for comment.

Weiss, who has been leading an investigation into Biden since 2019, brought three felony and six misdemeanor charges against him in December. The charges included failure to pay taxes, failure to file taxes, and filing false returns for the 2016 to 2019 tax years.

Weiss alleged that Biden “would earn handsomely and spend wildly” on a lavish lifestyle while failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes during that time period.

Biden’s attorneys, among their several arguments that the charges should be dropped, have claimed that a now-withdrawn plea deal Biden struck with Weiss last summer granted the first son “sweeping immunity” that protected him from future charges. The agreement included Biden pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax charges, but Weiss has argued that because a probation office never signed off on the agreement, it was never executed.

Biden’s attorneys have also argued that the tax charges should be dismissed because Weiss’s prosecution is “selective and vindictive” and has been “compromised by politics.”

“This case follows a nearly six-year record of [the Department of Justice] changing its charging decisions and upping the ante on Mr. Biden in direct response to political pressure and its own self-interests,” defense attorneys wrote in their motion.

They accused the DOJ specifically of caving to pressure to prosecute Biden from former President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans such as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY).

Prosecutors for the DOJ responded that the argument was “nothing more than a house of cards.”

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“From this fairly unremarkable set of procedural events, the defendant concocts a conspiracy theory that the prosecution has ‘upped the ante’ to appease politicians who have absolutely nothing to do with the prosecution and are not even members of the current Executive Branch,” the prosecutors wrote.

Scarsi, the presiding judge, has indicated that he plans to decide on whether to dismiss any of the charges by mid-April. He has scheduled a jury trial in the case to begin June 20.