Judge rejects Hunter Biden's bid to delay his June trial on federal gun charges

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden’s federal gun case will go to trial next month, a judge said Tuesday, denying a bid by lawyers for the president’s son to delay the prosecution.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected Hunter Biden’s request to push the trial in Delaware until September, which the defense said was necessary to line up witnesses and go through evidence handed over by prosecutors. The judge said she believes “everyone can get done what needs to get done” by the trial’s start date of June 3.

Later Tuesday, a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court said the tax case against him — which is scheduled to go to trial in California on June 20 — can also move forward. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a defense effort to throw out the case.

The two rulings mean Joe Biden’s son could be headed to trial next month in two criminal cases on opposite coasts in midst of his father’s reelection campaign.