Loading ...Hunter Biden Faces Potential 5th Amendment Headache After Pardon
Kevin Adams said that President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son now clears the way for Congress to call Hunter as a witness. In a statement to Newsweek, Steven Cheung, President-elect Donald Trump’s communications director, said that “the failed witch hunts against President Trump have proved that the Democrat-controlled DOJ [Department of Justice] and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system.”
Adams wrote on X that Hunter can no longer refuse to answer questions before Congress. That is because the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from having to answer questions before Congress if it could help a prosecution case against them or compel them to make self-incriminating statements. With Hunter now free from all his criminal cases, he cannot use the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions.