Hunter Biden’s license to practice law in the District of Columbia is being challenged after his conviction on felony charges relating to his purchase of a gun while using drugs.

At least one challenge was filed after the jury delivered its verdict Tuesday, joining another challenge that had been filed before the conviction.

These are just some of the consequences of Biden’s new status as a felon.

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His international travel could suffer — dozens of countries have rules against felons visiting — and his ability to make money off consulting, trading on his family connections, could become dicier, particularly if he does lose his law license.

But his burgeoning career as an artist seems unlikely to be affected.

Wayne L. Johnson, a retired Navy commander and member of the Judge Advocate General Corps, asked the D.C. bar to take a look at Biden’s ability to practice.

“The D.C. Bar, nor any other state bar, should want such a low life as a member,” Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times. “I am a member of the Georgia Bar, emeritus, and am sure they would disbar him in a nanosecond. Hunter is truly a disgrace to the legal profession.”

Trump alums had made a similar request earlier this year, as Biden’s legal troubles mounted.

D.C. bar records show Robert H. Biden was admitted on April 9, 2007, and was still listed in “good standing” as of Wednesday afternoon.

The bar declined to comment, saying court rules require disciplinary proceedings to be kept confidential until charges are filed.

But under the bar rules, it appears Biden should have his license immediately suspended. The rules say any felony counts as a “serious crime,” and once the court has been notified of a conviction of a serious crime, “the Court shall enter an order immediately suspending the attorney” and begin a formal proceeding to determine final discipline.

That’s true even if an appeal is planned.

The bar can decline to suspend a lawyer in cases “when it appears in the interest of justice to do so.”

Ty Clevenger, a lawyer who has pursued disbarment against several high-profile figures, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wondered whether the D.C. bar would be willing to disbar Biden altogether.

“Unfortunately, the D.C. Bar is grotesquely partisan, so it’s hard to say whether Hunter Biden will be disbarred,” he said.

He pointed to Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who was convicted of a felony for fabricating evidence to spy on the Trump campaign and faced only a one-year suspension from the D.C. bar.

“I think it’s distinctly possible that the D.C. Bar will let Biden off the hook with a suspension,” Mr. Clevenger said.

The Washington Times has reached out to Biden’s lawyer for this story.

The challenge to Biden is the latest in a series of high-profile bar investigations in the current heated political environment.

John Eastman, who helped craft then-President Trump’s election challenge strategy in 2020, has been suspended from practicing law in California and the District of Columbia.

Rudolph W. Giuliani had his law license suspended in New York, and the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended he be suspended in the nation’s capital, too.

D.C. Bar officials have also recommended Jeffrey Clark, who argued at the Justice Department in 2020 to question the election outcome, be disbarred.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, last week asked the Supreme Court to consider taking disciplinary action against Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Mr. McConnell said the two Democrats have engaged in unseemly attempts to skew high court action through baseless demands for recusal by GOP-appointed justices.