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Former White Home chief strategist Stephen Bannon gestures as he speaks to members of the media as he leaves the federal courthouse after a decide ordered him to give up by July 1 to start serving his four-month jail sentence, in Washington on June 6, 2024.
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The Excessive Council on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort by former Trump White Home aide Steve Bannon to keep away from reporting to jail subsequent week as he appeals his conviction for defying a Home committee subpoena of Representatives investigating the January 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon, 70, is anticipated to start serving a four-month jail sentence on Monday for contempt of Congress.
The Supreme Court docket in its unsigned, one sentence order On Friday, Bannon’s “software for launch pending enchantment filed with the Chief Justice (John Roberts) and referred by him to the Court docket was denied.”
The court docket in March rejected an analogous request from Peter Navarro, one other former adviser to former President Donald Trump who was additionally sentenced to 4 months in jail for ignoring a Jan. 6 subpoena from the Home of Representatives investigative panel. Navarro is about to start serving his sentence quickly.
An lawyer for Bannon didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for touch upon the Supreme Court docket ruling.
Bannon was convicted in July 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress, following a trial in U.S. District Court docket in Washington, D.C. His jail sentence was suspended in October 2022 pending an enchantment of his conviction.
Final month, a three-judge federal appeals court docket upheld his conviction and dismissed a argument that Bannon didn’t violate the legislation as a result of his lawyer suggested him to not adjust to the committee’s Jan. 6 subpoena due to the possibility that his testimony might be blocked by a declare of govt privilege.
Bannon is anticipated to ask the complete appeals court docket in Washington, D.C., to rehear the enchantment of his conviction. However the district decide in his case, Carl Nichols, ordered him on June 6 to report back to jail to start his sentence.
Final week, Bannon requested the Supreme Court docket to droop his extradition date pending his enchantment. Friday’s order denied that bid, making all of it however sure that Bannon will serve his sentence earlier than his enchantment is exhausted.
The bipartisan Home panel was fashioned to analyze the Jan. 6 revolt, when a violent mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing Congress to delay certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
The committee focused Bannon after he predicted on January 5, 2021, that “all hell would break free” the following day, and was concerned in discussions about the right way to overturn the election outcomes.
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