WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon should report back to jail by Monday after the Supreme Court docket rejected his last-minute bid to stave off his four-month sentence for defying subpoenas from the Home Jan. 6 committee.
Bannon was convicted in Washington on two counts of contempt of Congress practically two full years in the past, in July 2022, and sentenced to 4 months in jail in October 2022. U.S. District Decide Carl Nichols had put his sentence on maintain as he pursued an enchantment of his conviction, which was rejected in May. Nichols then ordered Bannon to report to prison by July 1, saying there was no foundation to proceed to delay the sentence. An appeals court docket then rejected Bannon’s appeal of the choice, leaving only the Supreme Court to assist him keep away from incarceration.
Bannon was held in contempt of Congress after he blew off the Jan. 6 committee’s request for paperwork and testimony as a part of its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s makes an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election and stay in energy within the lead-up to the Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon’s lawyer advised the Supreme Court docket that he was relying upon the recommendation of counsel, saying he was ready for problems with government privilege to be settled. However as federal prosecutors famous of their 2022 sentencing memo, there was no operational declare of government privilege, as Bannon had been part of the Trump administration years earlier, not throughout the timeframe being examined by the Jan. 6 committee.
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to 4 months in federal jail on the identical expenses, is ending up his sentence after he reported to prison in March.
Bannon, who’s 70, has already been assigned an inmate quantity by the federal Bureau of Prisons: 05635-509.
Daniel Barnes contributed.
