Having been toyed with enough, Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer told Biden fils and his estranged paramour that they must attend all future court proceedings in person. Of more immediate consequence, Biden has been ordered to disclose the financial records that have been requested by May 12.

That could be interesting. At the last hearing, one of Hunter’s lawyers, Brent Langdon, asked Judge Meyer to preclude an expert witness whom Roberts plans to call about financial evidence gleaned from Hunter’s infamous laptop. As we’ve previously noted, Team Biden has been incoherently sly about the laptop, simultaneously claiming that (a) it might not be his but (b) his privacy has been unlawfully invaded by the publication of its contents.

Not surprisingly, then, Langdon slipped into passive-voice mode, telling the judge, “There has never been an acknowledgement” from his client that the laptop is his.

“Well,” Judge Meyer replied, “let’s clear that issue up right now. Is it your client’s laptop or not?”

As we approach three years since the laptop’s emergence, Biden’s lawyer stammered, “I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question.” Eventually, flummoxed counsel settled on, “It’s not my client’s laptop as far as I know. He’s never accepted that that’s his laptop.”

Hmmm . . . May 12 ought to be a hoot.

[Should be! The order for Hunter to start attending hearings in person should be interesting, too. I wonder if his attorneys will appeal that. As for the laptop, the DoJ has already acknowledged that the FBI has used it as the basis of ongoing investigations of Hunter, so the dance here is amusing as well as revealing. And all of this brings up the biggest question of all: why didn’t the Bidens simply settle this case and get it out of the way? It’s not as if they don’t have money. Instead, this embarrassment keeps rolling, including the very strange PR disaster in which President Oh-So-Compassionate keeps refusing to acknowledge his own grandchild. — Ed]