Hunter Biden could loom large over the 2024 election. Democrats had hoped the Justice Department would have given them an out.

Judge Maryellen Noreika’s decision to nix the “sweetheart” plea deal threw their plan to blunt Republican attacks against Hunter Biden as an irrelevancy out the window.

Suddenly, the outrage against the deal forced the administration to appoint Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel has given the story new legs.