Bannon is meant to report back to jail by July 1 to start serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, earlier this month granted prosecutors’ request to ship Bannon to jail after one other three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld his conviction final month.
In its ruling final month, the D.C. Circuit panel stated that Bannon did not dispute that he intentionally refused to adjust to the House choose committee’s subpoena, “in that he knew what the subpoena required and deliberately didn’t reply; his nonresponse, in different phrases, was no accident.”
The D.C. Circuit panel additionally rejected Bannon’s claims that the subpoena was invalid.
Bannon’s legal professionals had requested the appeals court docket to permit him to stay free whereas he continues to struggle the conviction all the best way as much as the Supreme Court, if mandatory.
Bannon, a White House chief strategist within the Trump administration, was convicted practically two years in the past of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit down for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and the opposite for refusing to offer paperwork associated to his involvement in efforts by Trump, a Republican, to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to President Biden, a Democrat.
