House Republicans reveal plan to subpoena Hunter Biden – again

House Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees are planning to bring new subpoenas for Hunter Biden after his lawyer said the president's son would only comply if a «proper» subpoena was issued.

Mr Biden has previously been subpoenaed and asked to participate in an impeachment inquiry aimed at his father, Joe Biden.

Congressmen James Comer and Jim Jordan, chairs of the Oversight Committee and Judiciary Committee, respectively, sent the letter announcing the new legal filings to Mr Biden’s attorney, NBC News reported.

The Republican lawmakers alerted Mr Biden's lawyer to the forthcoming subpoenas in a letter on Sunday.

Even though both Mr Comer and Mr Jordan have agreed to send a new subpoena, they have insisted that the initial paperwork was «lawful and legally enforceable.»

Mr Biden's legal team has advised him to only testify in public settings. That advisement may have been what drove Mr Biden to skip a closed-door deposition last month. He instead gave a short speech outside the US Capitol, but did not take any questions.

House GOP members have been frustrated by what the perceive as Mr Biden's willful defiance of subpoenas, and have moved to formally recommend he be held in contempt of Congress.

“His conduct toward the House has been contemptuous. His defiance of the subpoenas has been willful and flagrant,” Mr Comer and Mr Jordan wrote in their letter. “His demands to testify only in a public setting are, as we have explained, inconsistent with the practice of these Committees in this matter as well as the practice of congressional Committees in recent Congresses. While we welcome Mr. Biden’s public testimony at the appropriate time, he must appear for a deposition that conforms to the House Rules