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A presidential pardon notwithstanding, the Biden family may yet face accountability from Congress and the executive branch, government watchdog groups say.

In fact, President Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of son Hunter Biden could provide more leverage for Congress to investigate other Biden family members, said Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, a conservative legal group.

“President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter means that Hunter can no longer invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination,” Davis, Republicans’ former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The Daily Signal in a telephone interview Monday.

Hunter Biden was convicted earlier this year on gun and tax charges, for which he faced a maximum of 17 and 25 years in prison, respectively.

The president’s pardon Sunday night covered any crimes his son “has committed or may have committed or taken part in from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.”

“The House Republicans should subpoena Hunter Biden now. This is a much bigger issue than hookers and blow,” Davis added, using slang for the drug cocaine. “This is about the president of the United States being compromised, with $23 million going to what seems like every member of the Biden family”

An impeachment inquiry conducted by three House committees—Oversight and Accountability; Ways and Means; and Judiciary—found bank records demonstrating a labyrinth of shell corporations owned by Biden family members doing business in China, Ukraine, Russia, and other foreign nations that in some cases seemingly were tied to Joe Biden’s actions in the Senate and as vice president.

The House committees concluded in a final report in August that the president engaged in a “conspiracy to monetize” his public office as vice president and enrich his family. The House didn’t move to impeach, as Biden had announced the previous month that he was dropping his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

Specifically, the president’s brother James Biden conducted business deals that prompted questions. In June, the three House committees made criminal referrals to the Justice Department to investigate Hunter Biden and James Biden for alleged perjury before Congress. Although the president’s pardon could cover any testimony the younger Biden already had given, it would not likely cover James Biden.

Hunter Biden’s testimony could potentially lead to more information about the Biden family’s involvement in influence peddling. The president’s son could be held in contempt if he refuses to answer questions from Congress and charged with perjury if he doesn’t testify truthfully.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/02/why-hunters-pardon-could-expand-accountability-for-biden-family/

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DNC Finance Committee Member questions why so many consultants became millionaires off of donations to Kamala Harris' campaign:

Lindy Li: "There's a lot of conflict of interest here. And we need a careful accounting and probably more granular than the FEC report would offer.

Because if we don't do that, how are voters and donors ever going to trust the Democratic Party again?

When Obama ended in debt in 2012, he left and left the DNC in a terrible position because we had to climb out of debt.

Hillary Clinton cited the 2012 Obama debt as a reason why she lost because initially her campaign was at disadvantage.

There is no reason why consultants became overnight millionaires through the campaign. It was no there's no justification for that.

They need they deserve answers as to why these people became millionaires. Multimillionaires.

That campaign was supposed to be spent on battleground states making the economic case to Americans, explaining bread and butter issues, explaining how she would bring inflation down, not on lining the pockets of well-connected Democrats."

The only people to do well financially during the Biden Harris regime were 'well connected Democrats' scamming the American people.

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By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor |

Published: December 2, 2024 11:01pm

The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled.

The 29-page ruling was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring.

At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.

Constantine’s order prohibited King County International Airport from supporting “the transportation and deportation of immigration detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, either traveling within or arriving or departing the United States or its territories.”

The airport is located next to a major ICE-Seattle base of operations.

The Trump administration at the time sued, arguing Constantine’s order violated the Supremacy Clause’s intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer agreement allowing the federal government to use the airport in King County.

A district court agreed, ruling in favor of the federal government. King County next appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

The Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and the Instrument of Transfer agreement.

The panel also held that the federal government had Article III standing to sue and “had two related concrete and individualized injuries.” The first is “the inability to conduct the charter flights – which has increased ICE’s operational costs – constituted a de facto injury that affected the United States in a particularized, individual way” and “an imminent risk of future injury from the Executive Order.”

The second is the federal government’s injuries “were fairly traceable” and “are likely, as opposed to merely speculative,” as a result of the order. Were there no order, “an FBO would resume servicing ICE charter flights,” the court notes.

Constantine’s order violated the intergovernmental immunity doctrine because it “improperly regulated the way in which the federal government transported noncitizen detainees by preventing ICE from using private FBO contractors at Boeing Field, and on its face discriminated against the United States by singling out the federal government and its contractors for unfavorable treatment,” the court held.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/ninth-circuit-rules-favor-federal-deportation