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Anonymous ID: 023dd9 June 28, 2024, 7:34 p.m. No.21107892   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7895 >>7913 >>8275 >>8364 >>8390 >>8490 >>8542

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https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-jan-6-supreme-court-510b9a485168d227a6ffd6ca6602d5cb

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid to delay a prison sentence for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon as he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

 

Bannon filed an emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison July 1 for a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The court previously denied a similar request from another Trump aide.

 

The appeal was originally directed to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees such requests from Washington. He referred it to the full court.

 

The court rejected it without explanation, as is typical. There were no noted dissents.

 

Defense attorneys have argued the case raises issues that should be examined by the Supreme Court, including Bannon’s previous lawyer’s belief that the subpoena was invalid because former President Donald Trump had asserted executive privilege. Prosecutors, though, say Bannon had left the White House years before and Trump had never invoked executive privilege in front of the committee.

 

A jury found Bannon guilty nearly two years ago of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement in the Republican ex-president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Anonymous ID: 023dd9 June 28, 2024, 7:35 p.m. No.21107901   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7913 >>7915 >>8275 >>8364 >>8390 >>8490 >>8542

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/steve-bannon-must-report-prison-monday-supreme-court-rejects-last-minu-rcna158584

June 28, 2024, 2:36 PM EDT

By Ryan J. Reilly

 

WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute bid to stave off his four-month sentence for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee.

 

Bannon was convicted in Washington on two counts of contempt of Congress nearly two full years ago, in July 2022, and sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols had put his sentence on hold as he pursued an appeal of his conviction, which was rejected in May. Nichols then ordered Bannon to report to prison by July 1, saying there was no basis to continue to delay the sentence. An appeals court then rejected Bannon’s appeal of the decision, leaving only the Supreme Court to help him avoid incarceration.

 

Bannon was held in contempt of Congress after he blew off the Jan. 6 committee's request for documents and testimony as part of its investigation into former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain in power in the lead-up to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon's lawyer told the Supreme Court that he was relying upon the advice of counsel, saying he was waiting for issues of executive privilege to be settled. But as federal prosecutors noted in their 2022 sentencing memo, there was no operational claim of executive privilege, as Bannon had been a part of the Trump administration years earlier, not during the time frame being examined by the Jan. 6 committee.