A federal appeals court refused Thursday to throw out Hunter Biden’s federal gun indictment, teeing up a high-stakes criminal trial next month in Delaware.

The president’s son had asked the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the charges by overturning prior decisions from the trial judge that the case should move forward. But the appellate panel instead rejected Biden’s appeal, handing yet another victory to special counsel David Weiss, who brought the charges.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

CNN’s Holmes Lybrand contributed to this report.

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