House Republicans to issue new subpoenas for Hunter Biden in coming weeks
House Republicans said they will issue new subpoenas for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, after his lawyer said he would comply if lawmakers issue a “new proper” one.
House Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees said Sunday that they will issue new subpoenas for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden after his lawyer said he would comply with a congressional subpoena if the lawmakers issue a “new proper” one.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, indicated that new subpoenas to Hunter Biden would be issued in the coming weeks in a letter to Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell on Sunday.
Comer and Jordan maintained that their initial subpoenas requesting his deposition behind closed doors are “lawful and legally enforceable” and again criticized his defiance of the subpoenas. Hunter Biden’s legal team had asserted that their client would only testify in a public setting. On the day he was scheduled to appear for a closed-door deposition last month, Hunter Biden instead delivered public remarks in front of the Capitol, taking no questions.
The GOP-led committees voted last week to formally recommend that the full House hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena in their impeachment inquiry into his father. Hours before the the contempt resolutions passed along party lines, the president’s son made a brief surprise appearance during the Oversight Committee’s markup.
After Republicans voted to recommend Hunter Biden be held in contempt, his attorney said in a letter to Comer and Jordan on Friday that he would comply with a congressional subpoena under the condition that it’s a “new proper” one.
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