Posted on 09/14/2022 7:58:29 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
A court has rejected a lawsuit seeking to force the public disclosure of federal records about a 2018 episode in which a gun belonging to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was allegedly thrown in a trash can.
In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras found that the public interest in the handling of any investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the episode was “significant,” but that the importance of Hunter Biden’s privacy as a private citizen outweighed the value of releasing any such records to the public.
“The privacy interest here is remarkably strong,” wrote Contreras, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
(Snip) A copy of the purchase form obtained by POLITICO last year and referenced in the court opinion showed that Hunter Biden checked a box saying he was not at the time a user of, or addicted to, narcotics, despite the fact that he and his family members have said he has struggled with drug addiction for years.
However, no charges were ever brought in connection with the episode.
Hallie Biden and a lawyer for Hunter Biden declined to comment when POLITICO reached out to them last year.
Contreras said Hunter Biden’s discussion of his drug problems in his Book did not diminish his privacy interest in any records about the episode.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
In other words, he’ll hide the Information for Hunter and Joe.
Agencies that came to the rescue of Hunter don’t matter.
Tax payer Cleanup Crew
I guess the Biden Donor that gave him $2 Million dollars is private and not of any public interest.
Just Add a Corrupt Judge on top of a mountain of Biden Corruption.
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Hunter says he’s actually one of Joe’s advisers.
Illegal behavior and Police (LE) responses have always been public records.
Why don’t they leave poor hunter alone? They are acting as if he is the son of someone who is orange and thus bad or something
Why doesn’t the media include the line “an Obama appointed judge”? If PDJT gets a favorable ruling it is pointed out the judge is Trump appointed.
Whenever anyone on the right commits a crime, they can expect a perp walk and an article above the fold on the front page. Ergo, what might be a crime when we do it, is not a crime when they do it.
Nominated by Obama to the district court. Appointed by Justice Roberts to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
What a croc! Anything negative about any Republican public figure is always fair game and in the "public" interest.
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The law is there to protect the high and mighty, right Judge Contreras?
Yes. Judge Contreras was at the center of the FISA approvals to spy on team Trump and also had to recuse himself from the Flynn case. Not surprising.
I got an OJ Jury and an Obama judge.
I think my chances just turned to sludge..
All because the Capitol door got a nudge
They gonna bend me over and pack that fudge
This is psychotic.
Suppose the gun had gone off and hurt or killed someone, judge. Would you have covered that up to?
Judge Rudy Contreres?! The very same clown on the FISA court who Lisa Page and Peter Strzok celebrated about as being THE one patsy they could reply on to get their warrants to snoop on Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/strzok-page-texts-reveal-personal-relationship-between-fbi-official-and-judge-recused-from-flynn-case
ANOTHER CORRUPT JUDGE!!
:: Nominated by Obama to the district court. Appointed by Justice Roberts to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. ::
And close personal friend and neighbor to Peter Strzok.
Wonder if the judge was a passenger on Lolita Express.
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You mean Strzok’s cocktail party friend didn’t recuse himself with Hunter Biden?
The bastion of integrity thinks Hunter writing a book and publishing a false account of the incident didn’t mitigate making public records public?
DC Swamp is so dirty.
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John Roberts - say no more.
That phony Deep State hack.
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