Federal judge accuses President Biden of attempting to 'rewrite history' in Hunter Biden pardon

The national justice overseeing Hunter Biden’s taxation lawsuit issued a crisp rebuke of President Biden's assertion that his lad was unfairly treated arsenic good arsenic the president's transportation method pursuing the president's last-minute pardon.

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who is based successful the Central District of California and was nominated by President-elect Trump, accused President Biden successful a scathing five-page bid of "rewriting history" with the pardon and suggested that the breadth of the pardon granted to his lad is unconstitutional.

"The Constitution provides the President with wide authorization to assistance reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but obscurity does the Constitution springiness the President the authorization to rewrite history," helium wrote.

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Hunter Biden departs a House Oversight Committee gathering connected Capitol Hill connected January 10. On Friday, a justice denied a question to propulsion retired a national weapon lawsuit against him.  (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

The justice voiced his displeasure that the president alerted the judicial strategy of his bid to pardon his lad via a White House property release.

"Rather than providing a existent and close transcript of the pardon with the notice, Mr. Biden provided a hyperlink to a White House property merchandise presenting a connection by the President regarding the pardon and the purported substance of the pardon," helium wrote.

"In short, a property merchandise is not a pardon," helium continued.

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Scarsi continued, reacting to the president's connection connected his son's taxation case: "the President asserts that Mr. Biden ‘was treated differently’ from others ‘who were precocious paying their taxes due to the fact that of superior addictions,’ implying that Mr. Biden was among those individuals who untimely paid taxes owed to addiction. But helium is not."

"According to the President, ‘[n]o tenable idiosyncratic who looks astatine the facts of [Mr. Biden’s] cases tin scope immoderate different decision than [Mr. Biden] was singled retired lone due to the fact that helium is [the President’s] son.’ But 2 national judges expressly rejected Biden’s arguments that the Government prosecuted Mr. Biden due to the fact that of his familial narration to the President. And the President’s ain Attorney General and Department of Justice unit oversaw the probe starring to the charges," Scarsi wrote.

2 TIMES BIDEN SAID HE WOULD NOT PARDON SON HUNTER BIDEN 

"In the President’s estimation, this legion of national civilian servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people," helium said.

Hunter Biden, lad of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building connected June 03, 2024 successful Wilmington, Delaware. Biden is lasting proceedings for felony weapon charges.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The justice said helium would dispose of the lawsuit erstwhile helium receives the authoritative pardon from "the due enforcement agency." 

He besides vacated Hunter Biden’s sentencing, which was scheduled for Dec. 16.  The charges carried up to 17 years down bars, but the archetypal lad would apt person faced a overmuch shorter condemnation nether national sentencing guidelines.

TRUMP PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED BIDEN WOULD PARDON SON HUNTER

"Subject to the pursuing discussion, the Court assumes the pardon is effectual and volition dispose of the case. The Supreme Court agelong has recognized that, notwithstanding its astir unlimited nature, the pardon powerfulness extends lone to past offenses," helium wrote.

FILE: President Joe Biden, wearing a Team USA overgarment and walking with his lad Hunter Biden, heads toward Marine One connected the South Lawn of the White House successful Washington, July 26, 2024.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hunter Biden, 54, has had a engaged twelvemonth successful court, kicking disconnected his archetypal proceedings successful Delaware successful June, erstwhile helium faced 3 felony firearm offenses, earlier helium pleaded blameworthy successful a separate felony taxation lawsuit successful September. 

President Biden pardoning his lad is simply a departure from his erstwhile remarks to the media implicit the summertime erstwhile helium insisted helium would not pardon the archetypal son.

"Yes," President Biden told ABC News erstwhile asked if helium would regularisation retired pardoning Hunter up of his blameworthy verdict successful the weapon case. 

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Days later, pursuing a assemblage of Hunter’s peers uncovering him blameworthy of 3 felony firearm offenses, the president again said helium would not pardon his son. 

"I americium not going to bash anything," Biden said aft Hunter was convicted. "I volition abide by the jury’s decision."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House for comment. 

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.