The likely imminent indictment of the president’s son is what happens when prosecutors cast about for something, anything, to charge.
to be the U.S. Attorney for Delaware—has been investigating Hunter Biden for five years and counting, with no charges and no convictions. The promised indictment appears to be the latest misstep by the U.S. Department of Justice in a case that can only be described now as a debacle.
At that court hearing, Judge Noreika also questioned whether giving her authority to decide if Biden might be found in breach of the diversion agreement amounted to an unconstitutional delegation of the executive branch’s authority to prosecute—given that most diversion agreement breaches areIn the aftermath of this embarrassment, Special Counsel Weiss and Attorney General Merrick Garland decided—despite their mutual insistence that Weiss previously had no limits upon his ability to investigate...
If a court agrees, DOJ may be barred from terminating the agreement under the contract principle that Biden has already relied upon the agreement to his detriment and deserves the benefits of the bargain entered into with the government. Such a principle was at play in the reversal of comedian Bill Cosby’s conviction by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court—that found Cosby had relied upon prosecutionthat no criminal case would be brought against him in deciding to give testimony in a civil deposition.
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