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House Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees said Sunday that they will issue new subpoenas for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, after his lawyer said he would comply with a congressional subpoena if the lawmakers issue a \u201cnew proper\u201d one.<\/p>\n
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, indicated that new subpoenas to Hunter Biden would be issued in the coming weeks in a letter to Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyer Abbe Lowell on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Comer and Jordan maintained that their initial subpoenas requesting his deposition behind closed doors are “lawful and legally enforceable” and again criticized his defiance of the subpoenas. Hunter Biden’s legal team had asserted that their client would only testify in a public setting. On the day he was scheduled to appear for a closed-door deposition last month, Hunter Biden instead delivered public remarks in front of the Capitol, taking no questions.<\/p>\n
The GOP-led committees voted last week to formally recommend that the full House hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena in their impeachment inquiry into his father. Hours before the the contempt resolutions passed along party lines, the president\u2019s son made a surprise brief appearance during the Oversight Committee\u2019s markup.<\/p>\n
After Republicans\u2019 voted to recommend Hunter Biden be held in contempt, his attorney said in a letter to Comer and Jordan on Friday that he would comply with a congressional subpoena under the condition that it\u2019s a \u201cnew proper\u201d one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden\u2019s behalf,\u201d Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, wrote.<\/p>\n
Lowell said the subpoenas were \u201clegally invalid\u201d because they were issued prior to the House\u2019s vote last month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
In their letter Sunday, Comer and Jordan wrote that Lowell\u2019s assertion that their subpoenas are \u201csomehow legally invalid\u201d was \u201cinaccurate and unpersuasive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They said their committees have \u201cmore than adequately explained the legislative purpose\u201d to support their subpoenas to the president\u2019s son and argued there is \u201cno legal basis\u201d for him to defy them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis conduct toward the House has been contemptuous. His defiance of the subpoenas has been willful and flagrant,\u201d Comer and Jordan wrote. \u201cHis demands to testify only in a public setting are, as we have explained, inconsistent with the practice of these Committees in this matter as well as the practice of congressional Committees in recent Congresses. While we welcome Mr. Biden\u2019s public testimony at the appropriate time, he must appear for a deposition that conforms to the House Rules and the rules and practices of the Committees, just like every other witness before the Committees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Committees welcome Mr. Biden\u2019s newfound willingness to testify in a deposition setting under subpoena,\u201d they added. “Although the Committee\u2019s subpoenas are lawful and remain legally enforceable, as an accommodation to Mr. Biden and at your request, we are prepared to issue subpoenas compelling Mr. Biden\u2019s appearance at a deposition on a new date in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter Biden and House Republicans have been engaged in a monthslong showdown over his cooperation in Republicans’ wide-ranging impeachment inquiry into the president. Comer and Jordan have alleged the involvement of president’s son in foreign business dealings associated with his father, but Republicans have not shown direct evidence to back up their claims that the president personally benefitted from his son’s business dealings.<\/p>\n
The House this week is scheduled to vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for complying with the congressional subpoenas. In a post to X on Friday, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., wrote, “Next week the House will vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for repeatedly defying subpoenas. Enough of his stunts. He doesn\u2019t get to play by a different set of rules. He\u2019s not above the law.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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