Hunter Biden probe shows corruptness in America’s two-tier justice system
America’s two-tier justice system keeps rolling along.
And Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who snubbed the House’s request for documents pertaining to his probe of Hunter Biden, is the latest to show how far the Department of Justice will go to keep it rolling.
Hunter, President Joseph Robinette Biden’s black-sheep son, is facing tax and weapons charges that would represent deep hot water for most Americans.
But Hunter isn’t most Americans.
He’s the president’s son, and, allegedly, bagman as well.
And our Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, is out to spare him the consequences of his actions.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley has come forward to report that Department of Justice officials took care to ensure that Hunter couldn’t be charged by ordering US attorneys in Washington, DC, and California not to prosecute.
Weiss didn’t charge Hunter because he allegedly said he lacked the authority to charge for things outside his home jurisdiction.
Garland could have granted Weiss the power to do so, but despite claiming that Weiss had unlimited powers, Garland never made the grant.
Hunter’s charges thus fell through a crack.
Convenient charges
But hey, the tax fraud was only one of Hunter’s legal problems where the Department of Justice was happy to help out.
Hunter did get charged in Delaware, but only with two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun charge, for which he’ll get pretrial diversion and no prison time.
The tax charges could carry as much as two years in prison, and the gun charge could produce a 10-year sentence, but Hunter’s plea deal is expected to produce none.
Columnist J.D. Tuccille writes, “If, as expected, Hunter Biden’s plea deal on tax and firearms charges keeps him out of prison, it would be a remarkable display of leniency. . . . It’s enough to make a suspicious person wonder if the deal was meant to give the appearance that justice was done to divert attention from more serious matters. It’s also a hint of the restraint prosecutors exercise for the powerful, and which the rest of us would appreciate.”
Ya think?
As law professor Jonathan Turley notes, the charges also allow Hunter to avoid discussing the (likely unsavory) sources of the money.
How convenient.
“The House Oversight Committee has documented potentially millions in financial transfers from foreign sources to Biden family members. . . . Garland took the most important step in pulling off the controlled demolition by steadfastly refusing to appoint a special counsel. Such an appointment would allow the release of a report that would detail the alleged corrupt practices of the Biden family and the knowledge and involvement of the president,” Turley wrote.
That’s why they didn’t do it.
This seems deeply suspicious, and the House Judiciary Committee is investigating.
But Weiss, ignoring a subpoena, is stonewalling.
People used to say that it’s the coverup that gets you, not the crime, but today’s Democrats obviously don’t believe that.
It’s been obvious for a while that there’s a two-tier justice system in America.
If you’re a Jan. 6 protester who just wandered around the Capitol, you can expect solitary confinement before trial, and prosecutors who’ll throw the book at you.
But if you’re the son of a (Democratic) president, you can expect to be handled with kid gloves.
Our Constitution forbids “titles of nobility,” whereby the elite live by different rules than the rest of us.
It doesn’t seem to be working very well, does it?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.
