The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the federal government unconstitutionally applied a gun restriction law to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana, narrowing the reach of the same <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-unanimously-limits-use-gun-law-used-prosecute-hunter-biden">federal statute</a> that was used in the prosecution of Hunter Biden.
In <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1234_g2bh.pdf">United States v. Hemani</a>, the Court held that prosecutors violated the Second Amendment when they charged Ali Hemani under a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, emphasized that the ruling was limited and did not eliminate the government’s ability to disarm dangerous individuals, addicts, or people actively under the influence.
“We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm,” Gorsuch wrote.
Hunter Biden was convicted in June 2024 before his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him. &#8220;Those prosecuted under the law can face up to 15 years in prison and a permanent ban on owning firearms,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backs-marijuana-users-challenge-restriction-gun-ownershi-rcna266931">NBC News</a>.
The case centered on Hemani, a 27-year-old man who admitted to smoking marijuana approximately every other day. FBI agents later found a handgun in his home that he said he kept for self-defense.
Prosecutors argued that historical restrictions on so-called “habitual drunkards” justified modern restrictions on firearm ownership by illegal drug users. The Court disagreed.
“The government’s analogy fails under every measure it asks us to consider,” Gorsuch wrote. “The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways.”
According to the Court, historical laws focused on people whose substance abuse rendered them incapable of managing their lives. The modern federal statute broadly covers regular drug users regardless of whether they pose a threat or not.
Gorsuch also warned that the government’s interpretation could surpass marijuana users.
Under the government’s theory, he wrote, the law could apply to “a college student who routinely uses a friend’s Adderall to cram for exams” or “a husband who regularly takes his wife’s prescription Ambien to sleep.”
The Court noted that prosecutors never alleged Hemani was addicted to marijuana, used a firearm while intoxicated, threatened anyone, or posed a danger to himself or others.
The ruling drew praise from Second Amendment advocates.
<a href="https://judicialnetwork.com/">Judicial Crisis Network</a> President Carrie Severino <a href="https://x.com/JCNSeverino/status/2067611106579718494">called the decision</a> a significant affirmation of constitutional protections.
“Can habitual drug users be disarmed? The Supreme Court, looking to history and tradition *unanimously* says no in United States v. Hemani,” Severino wrote on X. “This case inspired strange bedfellows like pro-drug organizations allying with gun rights groups — and so perhaps it’s not surprising that it’s also a case where Justices Thomas and Jackson can agree.”
Severino also noted that the Court’s decision relied heavily on the historical tradition framework that has become central to recent Second Amendment cases.
The ruling carries additional significance because the same federal statute, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13195">18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3)</a>, played a central role in the prosecution of Hunter Biden, who was convicted in 2024 of illegally possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs.
However, the Court stressed that Thursday’s decision was narrowly focused on Hemani’s circumstances and did not invalidate the statute altogether.
In a separate opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, agreed with the outcome and argued that the government simply failed to demonstrate that Hemani resembled the severely impaired individuals historically subject to firearm restrictions.
The justices repeatedly emphasized that the ruling does not prevent the government from restricting firearm possession by dangerous individuals, addicts, felons, or people shown to pose a genuine threat.
Still, the unanimous ruling marks another major Second Amendment decision from a Court that continues to require the government to justify firearm restrictions through the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.

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Supreme Court Delivers Unanimous Blow To Gun Law Used In Hunter Biden Case

Gun Laws

Hunter Biden

Neil Gorsuch

Second Amendment

Supreme Court

Embattled former first son Hunter Biden published a lengthy critique of President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House celebrations ahead of America&#8217;s 250th birthday — particularly the UFC fight that took place on the South Lawn on Sunday.
Biden&#8217;s father, former President Joe Biden, hosted a White House LGBTQ Pride celebration during which a trans-identifying man flashed his fake breasts on the South Lawn — but Hunter Biden argued that it was the UFC fight that crossed the line, disgracing the people&#8217;s house.
Biden&#8217;s comments were a direct response to podcaster Joe Rogan, who had taken part in the White House events that night, after he welcomed anyone who had a problem with the UFC fight there to &#8220;shut the f*ck up.&#8221;
&#8220;Dear Joe, I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House,&#8221; Biden wrote in an <a href="https://x.com/HunterBiden/status/2067549698861277391">X post</a>.
He began by praising the UFC for building a great brand, saying that the organization itself had nothing to do with his distaste for the event.
&#8220;For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.&#8221;
&#8220;My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred,&#8221; he added without a trace of irony. &#8220;And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment. The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people.&#8221;
Biden went on to argue that Trump was treating the White House like his own personal and private &#8220;Colosseum&#8221; and complained that he had held the UFC fight at the White House specifically to show the American people that he believed he could do anything he wanted with the property.
&#8220;To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This &#8216;celebration&#8217; could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it. But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point,&#8221; Biden complained. &#8220;By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: &#8216;This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.'&#8221;
&#8220;The fights,&#8221; Biden insisted, &#8220;were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker. The President is our servant. Not our Caesar,&#8221; Biden concluded, adding in his postscript that he was still down for a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with Donald Trump Jr., so long as it took place &#8220;anywhere but the South Lawn.&#8221;
Adding a twist of irony, former Secretary of State <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/2066171075495616809">Hillary Clinton</a> issued a similar statement as the UFC fights began, as she reminded everyone that the White House belonged to the people and should be respected by the presidents who had only a temporary residence there: &#8220;It&#8217;s not his house. It&#8217;s our house.&#8221;
Clinton was immediately <a href="https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2066214469286727869">reminded</a> that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had shown his respect for the people&#8217;s house by carrying on an affair with an intern in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden, Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden ‘Offended’ By UFC At The White House. Joe’s South Lawn Had A Man Flashing Fake Breasts.

Hunter Biden Is Mad About UFC. His Dad Let Pretend 'Women' Fondle Themselves On The South Lawn.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton

Politics

Embattled former First Son Hunter Biden offered an extensive defense of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, arguing that his critics should be the first to reveal the contents of their own phones.
Biden, speaking with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), explained away everything from Platner&#8217;s Nazi-inspired tattoo to his apparent history of troubling behavior with women before arguing that he made up for any shortcomings by taking appealing political positions. Biden also suggested that Platner&#8217;s issues were irrelevant anyway, since the people raising concerns about him were probably equally dirty.
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Newsom raised the question about Platner, who has faced a number of controversies since he rose to the top of the heap in Maine, asking Biden what he made of the way things had played out in recent weeks.
&#8220;What do think in the context of authenticity versus the audacity frame of Platner as a — as, you know, an example?&#8221; Newsom asked, referencing Platner&#8217;s tattoo and vulgar comments he&#8217;d made on social media.
Biden began by attributing Platner&#8217;s previous behavior to his military service and his struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, alluding to his own troubled history as a drug addict and suggesting that he of all people would recognize someone who was trying to right his own course.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not saying something new today that he wasn&#8217;t saying four months ago,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Or five months ago, which is this: he was a veteran, a combat veteran, and when he came back he had some real issues with PTSD, and that trauma, and whatever way that he was working it out, I think he has been really open about &#8230; he wasn&#8217;t a good person.&#8221;
Biden then compared Platner&#8217;s struggles to his own, saying that he knew how much &#8220;stamina&#8221; and &#8220;courage&#8221; it took to turn things around.
He went on to declare that he was &#8220;99% certain that Graham Platner is no Nazi,&#8221; and argued that people should stay out of the Maine Democrat&#8217;s relationship with his wife.
&#8220;I always say to people, like, show me your phone,&#8221; Biden continued, and Newsom laughed. &#8220;Give me access to your iCloud. Let&#8217;s go through it and pull everything that we can that is inappropriate, that is off-color, that is — you know, that selfie that you took when you were drunk off your ass and you sent it to your blah, blah, blah. Like, show me your phone!&#8221;
Biden argued that, by that standard, no one would ever be qualified to hold public office — and appeared to suggest that for that reason, people should ignore the furor around Platner.
In his final defense, Biden said he did not believe Platner was abusive, and he was worth supporting because no matter what his personal issues might be, he supported things like government-provided free healthcare and sticking it to billionaires.

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Hunter Biden Defends Graham Platner With A ‘Show Me Your Phone’ Challenge

Hunter Biden Defends Graham Platner With A 'Show Me Your Phone' Challenge

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Hunter Biden said he would appear on a presidential ticket if he ran as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s vice president. 
Biden made the comments during an appearance on Newsom’s podcast when asked if he would consider a potential presidential run. The younger Biden has been on a media tour in recent weeks, attempting to rehabilitate his image, prompting some Democrats to suggest he should run for president.
“Here&#8217;s the deal. I&#8217;ll run, but only as your VP, because the truth of the matter is the vice president&#8217;s residence is a lot cooler. It&#8217;s a lot easier job too,” Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iVut-mWQU8">told</a> Newsom in an interview released Friday. 
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“The grandeur of the White House is, it never gets old,” Biden added. “But you really do feel like you&#8217;re in a gilded cage.”
In other podcast appearances, Biden has lashed out at the Democratic establishment.
&#8220;There is this very powerful group of people, and they all go to the same dinner parties and they are all part of the same financial ecosystem, that continues to fill their pockets in the Democratic Party, which I think is the one thing that makes it very, very, very difficult for the Democratic Party to ever actually achieve the real systemic change that we need in order to rehabilitate that brand,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeKCysfsxk">told</a> Molly Jong-Fast.
Last week, President Donald Trump said that if the scandal-plagued Democrat Graham Platner could perform well in Maine, then maybe Biden could in a presidential race. 
&#8220;Hey, if the guy from Maine can do well,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Well, I guess Hunter could do well, too, because the guy from Maine is a basket case.&#8221;
Biden defended Platner during his appearance on Newsom’s podcast, claiming it took “courage” for him to launch a Senate campaign after previous mistakes. 
“He was a veteran, a combat veteran, and he came back. He had some real issues, and with PTSD, and, and that trauma, and whatever way that he was working it out, I think he had been really open about,” Biden said.
Biden, who was convicted on drug and gun charges, also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out">defended</a> his father’s decision to pardon him, claiming it was done to protect him from Trump. 
“It would have been like having a gun to my family for the next four years at least, and so that’s why he pardoned me,” he said. “It’s a really incredibly rational decision, and it was a really difficult decision, and you know how proud of my dad I am. The fact of the matter is, he chose me over his legacy, because no matter what you say, that’s going to be one of the first things that is written about.”
Biden&#8217;s pardon covered a sweeping time for crimes “committed or may have committed” for an 11-year period dating back to 2014. That protected the younger Biden from outstanding scrutiny on his questionable business dealings in Ukraine and China.
Before the pardon, Biden was offered what Republicans called a sweetheart deal because it would likely have allowed him to avoid prison time. A judge later declined to approve the deal, citing concerns over its constitutionality and the scope of immunity it offered. The Biden family complained that the deal was axed due to unfair “political pressure.”
His case then went to trial. A Delaware jury convicted him in June 2024 on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning a firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. 
Earlier this week, Biden admitted that his father had &#8220;lost a step&#8221; due to his age despite the Democratic Party&#8217;s insistence for much of his presidency.
&#8220;It was not like a surprise that people, as they get old, particularly at that age, they literally lose a step. Like, my dad lost a step,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That does not mean, per se, that there is a cognitive decline, but instead of embracing it, I think that they tried to kind of obfuscate it.&#8221;

Hunter Biden Gun Trial Continues In Delaware

Hunter Biden Addresses What Democrats Knew About Dad’s Brain

Hunter Biden Addresses What Democrats Knew About Dad's Brain 

Gavin Newsom

U.S. Politics

Hunter Biden, the embattled son of former President Joe Biden, finally weighed in on the cocaine that was discovered in the White House while his father was president.
Biden posted a video on Monday announcing that he had officially been sober for seven years, prompting a slew of responses on X. Some congratulated him for reaching the milestone, while others questioned whether he was telling the truth.
&#8220;Bullsh*t. That was your bag of coke in the White House,&#8221; one said.
&#8220;It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs,&#8221; Biden replied.
But it didn&#8217;t end there.
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Biden shared a second video on Tuesday about gratitude, saying that true gratitude could only be reached when people were able to be grateful for the bad along with the good — and then went on to explain that he was grateful for his past struggles with addiction because they&#8217;d laid him bare (literally) and made him better able to &#8220;connect&#8221; with people.
&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that I was a crack addict,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t say that with the slightest bit of irony or bullsh*t. It has given me to me right here.&#8221;
He went on to say that he was able to reach this kind of gratitude because his addiction had resulted in everything being &#8220;taken away&#8221; from him.
&#8220;All that addiction took away from me, and then all that the consequences took away from me, any sense of me being better than anyone &#8230; I get to approach you and you get to see all of me,&#8221; he added, poking fun at himself and the nude photos that went public with the discovery of his abandoned laptop.
&#8220;You get to see the nude pictures, you get to see me in grief, you get to see me at my worst,&#8221; he said.
One person responded to the video on X with the comment, &#8220;Crack head. I’m sure it was your coke in the White House. Embarrassment you are. You belong behind bars. Loser.&#8221;
Biden fired back, saying, &#8220;I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day, my friend.&#8221;
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I was most definitely a crack head. It most definitely was not mine. You can’t embarrass me anymore. And you have a nice day my friend.
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Less than a gram of cocaine was found in a heavily trafficked area of the White House near the West Wing. It was discovered in July of 2023, and no suspect was ever publicly named.

Jury Selection Begins In Hunter Biden Gun Trial

Hunter Biden’s White House Cocaine Excuse Actually Tracks

Hunter Biden Finally Addresses The White House Cocaine

Cocaine

Drugs

Joe Biden

White House

Former first lady Jill Biden said during a recent interview that she supported then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s plan to pardon his embattled son Hunter, claiming that the Department of Justice — run by his administration — was &#8220;not fair&#8221; to the younger Biden.
Biden, doing press for her upcoming memoir titled &#8220;View from the East Wing,&#8221; joined host Rita Braver for an interview that aired on the CBS News program &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; — and she <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/01/us-news/jill-biden-admits-i-wanted-joe-to-pardon-hunter-claims-process-was-not-fair-to-ex-first-son/">suggested</a> that the pardon was ultimately prompted by the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 loss and the fear that President Donald Trump would push for additional prosecution against Hunter.
&#8220;The Justice Department changed, and the process was not fair to Hunter,&#8221; she claimed.
Hunter, 56, initially landed a sweetheart deal that only gave him probation on three separate gun charges and tax evasion to the tune of $1.4 million — but left it on the table when his attorneys demanded immunity for him for any potential violations of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-almost-derails-after-questions-about-scope-of-deal-immunity">Foreign Agents Registration Act</a>, ostensibly because any charges in that particular ballpark could also implicate other family members like his father.
He was charged and tried in both cases by special counsel David Weiss, acting on behalf of Biden&#8217;s Justice Department. He was convicted in Delaware on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-david-weiss-makes-statement-after-hunter-biden-convicted-on-felony-gun-charges">gun charges</a> in June 2024 and took a plea on the tax charges in September. At the time, then-President Joe Biden and everyone in his inner circle declared that he would not pardon his son.
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But when former Vice President Kamala Harris failed to win her abbreviated White House bid, the Biden family calculus changed.
&#8220;When Trump was elected, things changed and we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go — I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,&#8221; Jill insisted, adding, &#8220;I truly supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe.&#8221;
President Biden issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liar-liar-biden-pardons-hunter-after-all">sweeping pardon</a> for his son on December 1, 2024, and also pardoned several other family members at the same time.
Jill explained that he did so, &#8220;I suppose for the same reason, that he felt that they would be targeted.&#8221;

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Jill Biden Supported Pardon Because DOJ Was ‘Not Fair’ To Hunter. It Was Joe Biden’s DOJ.

Jill Biden Supported Pardon Because DOJ Was 'Not Fair' To Hunter. It Was Joe Biden's DOJ.

Department of Justice

Jill Biden

Pardon

Embattled former first son Hunter Biden raised eyebrows on Thursday when he said he&#8217;d be &#8220;open&#8221; to a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
The younger Biden announced that he&#8217;d been invited — and that he had accepted the invitation — to join Andrew Callaghan&#8217;s Channel Five Carnival Tour. The tour is described as a blend of live music, rap battles, magic, and full screenings of controversial documentaries. Biden then added that Callaghan had pitched a finale idea that he couldn&#8217;t pass up: a &#8220;cage match&#8221; in which he would face both Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
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Son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden said he would be open to a &#8216;cage match&#8217; with President Donald Trump&#8217;s sons. <a href="https://t.co/oxoo7Cx3kx">pic.twitter.com/oxoo7Cx3kx</a>
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&#8220;Hey guys, Hunter Biden here,&#8221; Biden said, speaking directly to the camera. &#8220;I just got a call from Andrew Callaghan. He asked me to come out on the Channel Five Carnival Tour at the end of the month. I think we start in Phoenix and then we go to San Diego, and we end in Albuquerque. And I think he&#8217;s trying to organize a cage match, me versus Eric and Don Jr. I told him I&#8217;d do it, 100% in if he can pull it off. And if he can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m still coming.&#8221;
A <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/us-news/hunter-biden-is-too-broke-to-pay-lawyer-challenges-trumps-sons-to-a-cage-match/">report</a> from the New York Post, published on Friday, suggested that Hunter Biden might be less motivated by revenge fantasy than by his own personal financial situation. The report alleged that Biden, who has been living abroad, is deep in debt and struggling to pay his attorneys.
And if Hunter Biden&#8217;s posturing sounds familiar, it should: his father, former President Joe Biden, once made a similar remark about confronting President Trump.
During a 2018 speech, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump">Biden</a> famously told a room full of College Democrats at the University of Miami, &#8220;They asked me would I like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'&#8221;
Trump fired back at Biden via X (still Twitter at the time), saying, &#8220;Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!&#8221;

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Chip Off The Old Blockhead: Hunter Biden Calls For ‘Cage Match’ With Eric, Don Jr.

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Eric Trump

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It is easy to forget the dystopian excesses of the Covid era: business closures, shuttered schools, and mask and vaccine mandates. A new development in Missouri v. Biden, a Covid-era lawsuit, serves as an important reminder of how precarious our basic freedoms become in the face of a perceived disaster. For the past four years, a coalition of state attorneys general, courageous scientists, and First Amendment advocates waged a counterattack against the federal government’s efforts to strong-arm social media companies into silencing those espousing views contrary to the government-approved narrative. 
Last week, the plaintiffs and the federal defendants submitted a consent decree to the court for approval. The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.477.1.pdf">proposed consent decree</a> is both a real win for free speech and a blueprint for further protections necessary to safeguard our First Amendment rights.
That need is underscored by another recent free speech victory by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Wins+Landmark+Free+Speech+Victory+In+Censorship+Lawsuit+Against+State+Department">The Daily Wire</a>, in which the State Department agreed to stop supporting efforts that targeted protected speech by American media outlets. That settlement also imposed ongoing compliance oversight, helping ensure the government cannot quietly return to the same tactics.
The core allegation in Missouri v. Biden was that senior officials across multiple federal agencies had engaged in an unprecedented campaign to coerce and pressure major social media platforms into censoring lawful speech. The plaintiffs argued that the Biden administration had effectively outsourced government censorship to private companies, leaning on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress content related to Covid origins and treatments, the Hunter Biden laptop story, and election integrity.
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For example, Rob Flaherty, the director of digital media in the Biden Administration, tried to coerce Meta into suppressing posts critical of the Covid vaccine on Facebook, accusing Meta of driving “vaccine hesitancy.” Flaherty even demanded that Meta explain what it would do to suppress anti-vaccine content on WhatsApp, a private messaging application. Flaherty made clear he was not speaking just for himself, but rather for, “the highest — and I mean the highest — levels of the White House.&#8221;
The case bounced between trial and appellate courts, including a stop at the Supreme Court, as judges evaluated the nuances of the thorny, at times novel, claims at issue in the case. With the change in presidential administrations, however, the federal government no longer was the adversary, though it was still the nominal defendant. 
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which condemned the types of censorship the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden had filed suit regarding. With a sympathetic administration in office, the plaintiffs were able to negotiate a consent decree rather than spend many more years embroiled in litigation.
The consent decree is focused on preventing the type of coercion, known as jawboning, that the federal government had used to do indirectly during Covid what it could not do directly: prevent Americans from speaking out in public about the major issues of the day. The parties agreed that the government would no longer take actions designed to bully social media companies into removing or suppressing content containing free speech. The consent decree further prohibits the government from directing or vetoing social media companies’ content moderation policies.
A critical limit in the consent decree, however, exposes the clear need for the government to take protective measures outside the confines of the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit. For technical legal reasons related to standing and jurisdiction, the consent decree is focused on the parties to the case. Rather than enjoin the federal government as a whole, the consent decree binds the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which engaged in some of the most blatant jawboning efforts during the Covid period. The consent decree further protects only the plaintiffs in the case, that is, the states and individuals who sued the government. (In a bit of poetic justice, two of the plaintiffs, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, withdrew from the case after accepting senior posts in the Trump administration.)
The Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs are not the only litigants who have prevailed in challenges to Biden-era free speech violations. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-dept-reaches-censorship-settlement-with-daily-wire">reported</a>, this week, a federal judge issued a consent decree in a challenge to the Biden-era State Department’s practice of partnering with outside organizations to label various outlets — including this one and the Federalist — as disinformation. The State Department agreed that it would no longer engage in efforts to suppress, censor, demonetize, or downgrade the constitutionally protected speech of Americans and domestic news outlets. 
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While these consent decrees are real victories for the plaintiffs who had the courage to take on the federal government in court, they will not stop a future administration from engaging in similar tactics that we saw during Covid, in the wake of the 2020 election, and throughout the Biden Administration. Americans as a whole deserve the robust protections the Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs earned in that litigation. 
Congressional action of any sort is admittedly a difficult feat. But there are few bedrock principles more important than those embodied in the First Amendment. If Congress wants to protect Americans’ free speech rights, the proposed consent decree in Missouri v. Biden is a useful roadmap. All federal agencies and officials, not just the select handful named in the proposed consent decree, should be prohibited from trying to control speech by telling social media companies what content is and is not allowed. And all Americans should be able to speak on social media with the assurance that the government cannot tell social media platforms to silence them.
The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden and their attorneys should be praised for bringing a landmark lawsuit in the face of tremendous government overreach and achieving a real victory in the process. Congress should follow suit by extending those protections to everyone else.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock is the Miles Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Liberty, and he is a partner at Sweigart Murdock, LLP in San Francisco, where he specializes in First Amendment and defamation law, political law, and civil rights.

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The ongoing legal battle between Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts over their seven-year-old daughter, Navy Joan, has reached a new level of friction in an Arkansas court. The dispute centers on <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15510483/Hunter-Biden-ghosted-daughter-Navy-Lunden-Roberts-stripper.html">allegations</a> that Biden has &#8220;ghosted&#8221; the child and failed to fulfill the unique terms of a 2023 settlement agreement.
Lunden Roberts recently filed to reopen the child support case, labeling Biden &#8220;classless&#8221; for cutting off all contact with Navy Joan in 2024. In response, Biden’s legal team submitted a blunt filing asserting that his lack of communication does not constitute a violation of the law. His lawyer argued that because the court order does not explicitly mandate him to speak to or visit the child, his silence is not punishable by contempt. This follows a brief period where the two had reportedly begun building a foundation through scheduled calls.
A central pillar of their <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/hunter-biden-baby-mama-luden-roberts-settle-child-support-dispute-with-first-sons-payments-slashed/">2023 agreement</a> was Biden’s commitment to provide Navy Joan with 30 of his original paintings or the proceeds from their sale. At the time, Biden’s art was valued as high as $500,000 per piece. Roberts claims Biden has failed to hand over the art, while Biden’s defense maintains that because the settlement did not establish a specific deadline, he is not currently in breach of the order. Meanwhile, the market value of his work has reportedly plummeted since Joe Biden left the White House.
Roberts cited a stark contrast between Navy Joan’s upbringing and that of Hunter’s other children. Her filings point to the Biden family’s exclusive lifestyle—specifically a 2025 Thanksgiving gathering in Nantucket—noting that Navy Joan is the only grandchild excluded from such family activities. Roberts argues that while the court cannot force Biden to be a &#8220;good dad,&#8221; it can ensure the child receives the same level of financial support as her half-siblings.
The relationship began in 2017, and Navy Joan was born in 2018. Although Hunter Biden initially claimed he had no memory of Roberts and denied paternity, a 2019 DNA test <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/nov/20/dna-test-shows-hunter-biden-father-arkansas-womans/">confirmed</a> he was the father. Despite this, he famously omitted Navy Joan from his 2021 memoir and successfully fought to prevent her from using the &#8220;Biden&#8221; last name.

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden admitted on a recent podcast that President Donald Trump is not, in fact, the next incarnation of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — but then he claimed that was only because Hitler, unlike Trump, had a &#8220;plan.&#8221;
Biden, during an interview on the &#8220;<a href="https://youtu.be/YRfS0YrKGRc?si=XrvxnaZYKJyHn_z1&amp;t=2143">Wide Awake Podcast</a>,&#8221; claimed that Trump differed from the German dictator largely because Hitler had been driven by &#8220;ideology&#8221; — whereas he believed Trump was only driven by &#8220;corruption&#8221; and a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; world view.
Biden began with a question — namely, how did the German people allow Hitler&#8217;s rise to power — and he suggested that the United States might be going through a similar situation.
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&#8220;I’m not saying that there is a Holocaust, and by the way, I’m not saying that Donald Trump is Hitler. Because Hitler had an ideology. And he had a grand plan,&#8221; Biden claimed, adding, &#8220;Donald Trump is purely corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only cares about one thing, and that’s Donald Trump. And he is a clown in that respect,&#8221; he added, saying Trump was actually more like the &#8220;Butcher of Uganda,&#8221; Idi Amin.
Biden, who has spent most of his adult life profiting from his father&#8217;s political positions, went on to complain that President Trump&#8217;s family has continued to make money while he served as president. His comments echoed those of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-send-hunter-bidens-father-to-lecture-americans-on-trump-profiting-from-presidency">his father</a>, the former president, who made almost the same complaint days earlier.
&#8220;Has anyone noticed how much the Trump family has made while he’s been president? A reported $1.8 billion,” Biden began, his tone soft. He abruptly began shouting as he added, “Can you imagine if any other president in American history did that? Can you imagine what would happen?&#8221;
Grok provided the perfect response to the former president: &#8220;Biden’s claim overlooks his family’s multimillion-dollar deals with foreign entities during and after his VP tenure, per House investigations and bank records. Trump’s family businesses operated separately, with him donating his full presidential salary to charity—hardly equivalent profiteering.&#8221;
In addition to the fact that President Trump has donated his salary the entire time that he has been president, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-net-worth-us-presidents-before-after-office-1992975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports indicate</a> that Trump is the only president in recent history to see his net worth drop after a term or two in the Oval Office, as The Daily Wire previously reported. When Trump first took office in 2017, he had an estimated net worth of $3 billion — and when he left office in early 2021, his net worth had fallen to $2.3 billion.

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Hunter Biden Admits Trump Isn't Hitler, But It's All Downhill From There

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Former President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden had a blunt, two word response to first lady Melania Trump&#8217;s threatened $1 billion defamation suit over comments he&#8217;d made suggesting that she had ties to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein: &#8220;F*** that!&#8221;
Channel 5&#8217;s Andrew Callaghan, who gave the interview in which Biden made the offending claims, shared video on Thursday of Biden&#8217;s reaction to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melania-threatens-hunter-biden-with-1b-lawsuit-false-defamatory-disparaging">threat of a lawsuit</a>.
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Callaghan introduced the video posted Thursday by splicing in clips of Biden&#8217;s offending comments — and then turned the question over the Biden, saying that perhaps he was giving him the platform to apologize as the first lady had demanded.
&#8220;F*** that,&#8221; Biden laughed, and then after a brief pause, &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221;
The younger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youve-chosen-to-book-spectacle-chuck-todd-unloads-on-media-outlets-platforming-hunter-biden">Biden</a> had claimed during a YouTube interview with Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan that &#8220;Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.&#8221; He later added, according to the complaint, &#8220;Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and that’s how Melania and the first lady — and the president met.&#8221;
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Alejandro Brito, attorney for Melania Trump, sent a letter demanding an apology and threatening a lawsuit to Hunter Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, on August 6.
&#8220;These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums,&#8221; Brito wrote. &#8220;Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide.&#8221;
&#8220;Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,&#8221; Brito continued, threatening a $1 billion defamation suit if the demands were not met.
&#8220;Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,&#8221; he wrote.
Brito also noted that The Daily Beast, another outlet that had published the same claims based on information published by &#8220;serial fabulist Michael Wolfe,&#8221; had already apologized.
&#8220;The timing of this video is evident and underscores the actual malice behind the decision to publish it given the plain falsity of the statements,&#8221; Brito addressed Biden directly. &#8220;Given your vast history of trading on the names of others—including your surname—for your personal benefit, it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself.&#8221;

Hunter Biden Gives Two-Word Reply To First Lady Over Threatened $1 Billion Lawsuit

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First lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over claims the Biden scion made about Trump regarding the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Attorneys for Trump sent a letter demanding Biden retract statements he made about the first lady regarding Epstein in an interview on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan and published on YouTube earlier this month. The letter accused Biden of causing “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” to the first lady.
“This correspondence serves as a demand … that you immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” the letter says. The interview “has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide. Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
The letter, sent by Alejandro Brito, Trump’s litigation counsel, quotes two comments from Biden in the video in which he claims that Epstein first introduced Trump to President Donald Trump. In the video, Biden cites an article published on The Daily Beast written by “serial fabulist” Michael Wolff.
“Following receipt of our cease-and-desist demand letter just a week ago, The Daily Beast issued an apology to Mrs. Trump and retracted the false and defamatory statements contained in the Article by deleting it in its entirety,” Brito wrote. “Despite this, you have unjustifiably relied upon Mr. Wolff&#8217;s false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump and maliciously elected to republish them.”
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Biden must issue a public retraction of his comments and an apology to Trump, according to the letter. The message also tells Biden to save all evidence and communications related to the claims and the interview.
If the letter’s demands are not met, “Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages. You are on notice,” the letter says.
Biden appeared on the YouTube news show Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan twice in videos published on July 21 and August 5. The July <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M&amp;t=4278s">interview</a> ran for roughly three hours and has racked up over 3.6 million views. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4WCtYDtgbM">video</a> released in August is shorter, running just over one hour, and has amassed nearly 1.2 million views. The offending comments appeared in the August video.

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