{"id":4696,"date":"2025-01-09T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-judiciary-chair-to-keep-hunter-biden-investigation-alive\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:18:37","slug":"house-judiciary-chair-to-keep-hunter-biden-investigation-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-judiciary-chair-to-keep-hunter-biden-investigation-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"House Judiciary Chair to keep Hunter Biden investigation alive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The House Judiciary Committee will continue its probe into the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, committee chair Jim Jordan said in an interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sure sign that, even as President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, his family will still face scrutiny from Republicans \u2014 and that the sweeping pardon of his son is unlikely to serve as a total shield for the next four years.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump and his allies have suggested they will go after the President-elect\u2019s adversaries during his second stint at the White House, and Trump has tapped a number of his loyalists to drive his agenda at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Jordan implied his panel could begin with bringing in David Weiss, the Trump-appointed special counsel who ultimately recommended to the Justice Department that Hunter Biden be convicted of federal gun charges and tax evasion.<\/p>\n

The House Judiciary Committee interviewed Weiss behind closed doors as part of its inquiry in the last Congress into whether the president committed impeachable offenses by allegedly using his political standing to further his family’s interests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think we need to look at David Weiss, the special counsel,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThere will be some additional work we need to do, I think, there because when we deposed him, he wasn’t willing to \u2014 he didn’t answer any questions, really, because it was [an] ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Republicans also in the previously deposed Hunter Biden and Joe Biden\u2019s brother, James Biden, in closed-door interviews as part of their impeachment inquiry and later issued recommendations that federal law enforcement charge both men with lying under oath.<\/p>\n

But since that time, Joe Biden issued a \u201cFull and Unconditional Pardon\u201d of Hunter Biden for all offenses for the previous ten year period, negating the legal consequences of the criminal charges recommended by Weiss.<\/p>\n

Yet Jordan stopped short of saying he would probe Joe Biden\u2019s decision to pardon his son, even though the Judiciary Committee has historically held oversight of that presidential power. He emphasized that the outgoing Commander-in-Chief has broad pardon authority \u2014 something Trump is expected to wield freely in his own presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t agree with it. I think a lot of Americans didn\u2019t,\u201d Jordan said of Biden\u2019s pardon decision, but noted, \u201cthe President can pardon anyone he wants to pardon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan made these remarks during a broad sit-down interview with Blue Light News about his priorities for the 119th Congress \u2014 his first time serving as chair during a Republican governing trifecta. <\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s panel is likely to take center stage during the battle over immigration legislation. He also said he plans to focus on issues around the Second Amendment which gives citizens the right to gun ownership, as well as policies surrounding the name, image and likeness issues in college athletics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House Judiciary Committee will continue its probe into the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, committee chair Jim Jordan said in an interview on Thursday. It\u2019s a sure sign that, even as President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, his family will still face scrutiny from Republicans \u2014 and that the sweeping pardon of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}