The federal judge in Hunter Biden’s tax trial has rejected a last-ditch effort to toss the charges from the first son’s high-priced lawyers.
The ruling has now all but ended any chance that Hunter Biden can avoid trial in September.
The younger Biden has sought to have the charges thrown out several ways.
He has even claimed he is being targeted politically by his father’s Justice Department, echoing President Donald Trump.
Biden’s lawyers redoubled an effort to disqualify the prosecutor in charge, Special Counsel David Weiss.
They targeted Weiss after Trump’s classified documents case was tossed in July.
The judge in that case, Aileen Cannon, ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith wasn’t appointed legally.
However, Weiss was appointed legally.
In a ruling Monday, California Judge Mark Scarsi dismissed Biden’s latest attempt to dismiss the charges.
Judge Mark Scarsi noted that the request was just a rehash of matters that the court already ruled on.
In his ruling, Scarsi wrote:
“As he concedes in his notice of the motion, Mr. Biden plainly seeks reconsideration of issues already decided upon his February motion.”
“There is no valid basis for reconsideration of the court’s [prior] order denying Mr. Biden’s motion to dismiss the indictment,” the judge added.
Scarsi had threatened to sanction Biden’s lawyers for lying about important differences between the Trump and Biden cases, as Slay News reported.
Unlike Smith, Weiss was a Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney before he was named special counsel.
Weiss also filed charges before his promotion to special counsel.
The judge backed away from sanctions on Monday.
However, Scarsi warned Biden’s lawyers that “candor is paramount” after they admitted their argument was “inartfully” expressed.
Scarsi’s latest ruling all but guarantees that Biden will stand trial in September.
He is charged with evading taxes on $1.4 million in foreign income from 2016 to 2019.
Prosecutors recently introduced evidence that Hunter tried to influence the U.S. government on behalf of a Romanian client during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.
Hunter Biden’s lawyers have accused Weiss of adding “irrelevant” claims to the tax case to levy broader “politically charged” accusations against the Biden family.
“The Special Counsel’s unnecessary change of tactic merely echoes the baseless and false allegations of foreign wrongdoing which have been touted by House Republicans to use Mr. Biden’s proper business activities in Romania and elsewhere to attack him and his father,” attorneys wrote.
In November, Hunter Biden will be sentenced in his separate felony gun case.
Biden was convicted in June for lying about his drug addiction when purchasing a firearm.
