Can Hunter Biden Stay Out of Jail Thanks to Justice Clarence Thomas’s Defense of Gun Rights?

The first son’s lawyers appear to be readying a constitutional challenge made possible by the justice who believes President Biden subjected him to a ‘high-tech lynching.’

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Hunter Biden boards Air Force One with the president, February 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard, Camp David. AP/Patrick Semansky

Hunter Biden’s fate could be decided at an appellate court not far from his family’s home state of Delaware. That brings into focus the possibility — rich in irony — that one of the signal products of the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, could shield the son of one of its most vociferous opponents, the president.

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