Unearned leniency for Hunter Biden is grave violation of equal justice

Even on its own terms related to tax evasion and a gun purchase, the Justice Department’s plea deal for presidential son Hunter Biden is so lenient as to be a travesty. If the plea deal represents tacit exoneration on all other possible charges, as Biden’s lawyer indicated, then it’s not just a travesty but a hint of massive Justice Department corruption.

Hunter Biden’s case involved serious violations of both statutory provisions, both because he signed the form in flagrantly willful disregard of the law and because his drug use — “smoking crack every 15 minutes,” he said — was of exactly the extreme degree that makes firearm possession supremely dangerous.

For comparison, take just one case about which I’ve written numerous times. A county commissioner in Mobile, Alabama, was facing a state murder rap in 2010 for what later turned out, unmistakably, to be suicide by his adulterous paramour. As far as federal law was concerned, though, that separate state allegation was immaterial. Unlike Hunter Biden, Stephen Nodine faced no other federal charges. Unlike the president’s son, Nodine was not a major violator of narcotics laws.

Apart from the other 298 people prosecuted for what earned Biden no official charge, the Biden-Nodine comparison is a screaming example of “unwarranted disparate treatment.”

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