Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, did not get all the news he wanted from a federal court as his case is headed toward trial.

The Epoch Times reported that prosecutors scored some significant victories with U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika. She said the government would be allowed to speak about Biden’s spending habits regarding his purchase of a $900 firearm in Delaware in 2018.

The judge also said that government prosecutors would not have the burden of proving that Biden was on drugs when he purchased the firearm, only that he was a drug user at the time, which is something the 54-year-old admitted to in his memoir and interviews.

The prosecution also convinced the judge to prohibit the defense from speaking about the fact that Delaware prosecutors did not bring charges against their client for the same charges because state officials “did not possess the evidence federal authorities later obtained, and even if they had, the conduct was likely not prosecutable under Delaware state law.”

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The defense for the son of the president also scored its share of victories in the hearing, including prohibiting the prosecution from mentioning anything about Biden being discharged from the U.S. Navy or his child support proceedings and any references to the tax fraud charges he is facing in California.

Prosecutors are also banned from describing Biden’s spending habits as an “extravagant lifestyle.”

Noreika also will allow questions about the veracity of the files in his infamous laptop after prosecutors said that it would be a waste of time and that there is no evidence to suggest any of the information found on the laptop was tampered with.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio attacked Hunter Biden in an interview on Fox News in April, and his attorneys claim that his case was “baseless.”

During an interview on Fox News, the Ohio Republican said it’s “ridiculous” for Hunter Biden to say that the evidence is “baseless” as the “country can see what he was involved in.”

“Part of this real estate investment entity that they were working on together. But she, in fact did that. I mean, that’s the big picture. You know, what you played the clip from Hunter Biden he said baseless inquiry. We got millions of dollars from foreign entities flowing through 20 different companies for what? What was the service? What were they selling? What were they offering?” Jordan began.

“And Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner told us in his deposition it was for access to the brand. And the brand was Joe Biden. The brand who played rounds of golf, took phone calls and meetings, attended lunches and dinners with Hunter Biden and his business associates, the brand who conditioned $1 billion of American tax money on the firing of the prosecutor who was investigating the company Hunter Biden sat on the — on the board up and was receiving a million dollars a year,” Jordan said.

He added, “That’s — that’s what we’re talking about here. So this idea is baseless is just ridiculous. The country can see what was going on here. And Mr. Bobulinski, Mr. Galanis will talk about when Joe Biden showed up and when Joe Biden was actually involved in these things. That’s what we’re going to hear. And the contradictions of when Hunter Biden testified under oath, what he said versus what all his partners, who he no longer has any relationship with, what they said under oath.”

“The State Department had sent the prosecutor letter saying you’re doing a good job just a few months before Joe Biden goes over there and conditions the release on the money — of the money on the firing of that same prosecutor,” Jordan said.

“That prosecutor was actually looking into Burisma and Zlochevsky, the CEO of that Ukrainian energy company. The one before him, allowed him to have $23 million that had been seized, allowed to have it back,” he said.