Hunter Biden says Aileen Cannon’s ruling that ended Trump’s classified documents case should help him as well

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Hunter Biden on Thursday asked judges to throw out his gun convictions and dismiss his pending tax charges, citing the controversial recent ruling from Judge Aileen Cannon that ended the classified documents case against Donald Trump and threw into question the validity of special counsels like the one prosecuting the president’s son.

Lawyers representing President Joe Biden’s son filed the separate motions in federal courts in Delaware, where he was convicted last month of three felony gun offenses, and in California, where he’s expected to go on trial this fall for nine alleged tax crimes.

This is the latest fallout from Cannon’s shock ruling, which found that the Justice Department special counsel who prosecuted Trump was unconstitutionally appointed and unlawfully funded. That special counsel, Jack Smith, is appealing the decision.

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A separate special counsel, David Weiss, has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018 and brought the separate gun and tax indictments against him last year. Biden denies wrongdoing in both matters and claims he’s being politically targeted.

In court filings Thursday, Biden said Weiss was pursuing “an unauthorized prosecution” and that his gun convictions were “a miscarriage of justice.” For the tax charges, he demanded the same treatment as Trump, whose case was dismissed.

“The defect has been recognized and used to invalidate an indictment brought by the Special Counsel against former President Trump, the equivalent result should be available to Mr. Biden,” Biden’s lawyers wrote regarding his tax