A judge has granted Hunter Biden’s request to drop his laptop hacking case against former White House aide Garrett Ziegler but blocked him from resuming the case in the future.

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, claimed in his request filed in California that he’s “millions of dollars in debt” because his artwork and memoir aren’t selling, and he lost a home he was renting in the Los Angeles wildfires.

Federal Judge Hernán Vera, in ruling in his favor, still said Biden would have an unfair advantage if he refiled his case, as Ziegler’s attorneys had already submitted papers, which included their main defense in the case, reported The New York Post Friday.

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