On Friday, the Supreme Court may have doomed First Son Hunter Biden’s gun case, after they ruled to uphold a law that bars domestic abusers from owning firearms.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling on United States v. Rahimi, a case revolving around Zackey Rahimi, a drug dealer who was under a restraining order due to an argument with his girlfriend in 2019, during which he allegedly knocked her down, dragged her to his car and shot at either her or a bystander, additionally threatening to shoot her if she went to the police.
His trial court found that Rahimi had not only engaged in “family violence” but that additional violence was “likely to occur again in the future,” and suspended his gun license for two years, as well as barring him from contacting his girlfriend, labeled C.M. in the opinion.
Rahimi later violated the order by approaching C.M. and communicating with her via social media, as well as threatening a different woman with a gun. He was also identified as the suspect in at least five additional shootings.
The Supreme Court ruled against Rahimi 8-1, with only Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting.
“Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in the opinion.
The decision is viewed as a win for the Biden administration, but Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley says that the victory is hollow for the president, as it spells unintentional devastation for his son.
“On Friday, Hunter Biden may have lost the greatest Hail Mary pass in history,” Turley began in an opinion piece published on Fox News. “When Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach threw his famous winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson in 1975, he later explained ‘I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary.’ For Hunter, the pass to the Supreme Court roughly 50 years later just missed in equally spectacular fashion.”
Turley explained that Hunter, who was convicted last week by a unanimous jury in Delaware for false statements on a gun form and possession of a firearm as a drug addict, was relying on the Court striking down the law, as he had argued “against the position of his father’s administration and adopting the same argument of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in challenging the constitutionality of the law.”
“The Court found the federal statutes imposing a reasonable temporary limitation on this right. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that ‘an individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment,’” Turley said. “The key is the temporary qualification. The Court is only saying that a court can make reasonable decisions based on such a record to protect others from allegedly violent defendants.”
Turley argued that the Supreme Court’s decision was “not as bad as the unanimous decision in Delaware, it may well have sealed his fate on appeal.”
Turley noted that Hunter had been relying on “Hail Mary passes” for the entirety of his trial, arguing that special counsel David Weiss had been intentionally attempting to “avoid any felony charges against the president’s son,” and said that the Department of Justice had done so too, as they “not only allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, but sought to finalize an obscene plea agreement with no jail time for Hunter.”
“The Biden legal team then blundered in taking the case to trial with a jury nullification strategy,” he added. “Some of us wrote that Hunter needed to plead guilty to avoid jail time. Instead, they hoped that a Delaware jury in Bidentown could never convict a Biden. They were wrong.”
“What is now left for Hunter are sentencing guidelines that strongly support jail time and a judge who has imposed such jail time in past cases,” he noted.
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