Hunter Biden asks for criminal cases to be thrown out, citing Trump case dismissal

Biden says precedence established in Trump's classified documents case should prevail in his own tax and gun cases

President Joe Biden's son Hunter asked a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss tax and gun cases against him, citing a ruling in Florida this week that threw out a separate prosecution of Donald Trump.

The requests in federal court in Delaware and California underscore the potential ramifications of US district judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal on Monday of the classified documents case against the former president and the possibility that it could unsettle the legal landscape surrounding the justice department's special counsels.