Steven Bannon will begin serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress in federal prison on July 1. This is what a federal judge ruled today who ruled that Donald Trump’s former strategist and guru of the American far right will have to start serving his sentence before the sentence of the new appeal he filed arrives, after a May an appeals court had rejected the first against the October 2022 sentence.
Lawyers for Bannon, who was convicted of refusing to testify before the House committee of inquiry into his role in the assault on Congress, have in fact filed a new appeal with the Washington Circuit Court of Appeals, asking that this time let the entire assembly, and not just three judges, evaluate it.
After the first degree conviction, Judge Carl Nichols, appointed by Trump, suspended the application of Bannon’s sentence pending the outcome of the appeal. But Nichols today stated that, in light of last May’s ruling in which the appeal was rejected, there “no longer exists” the motivation to further postpone the sentence for the 70-year-old ideologue of the US far right, now very active with the podcast War Room. And so the judge ordered bail revoked on the basis Bannon was at large.
However, by setting the start of the sentence at July 1, Nichols gave Bannon’s lawyers almost a month to proceed with the appeals. Another Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, a former White House trade adviser, is serving a four-month prison sentence for refusing to testify to the investigation into the assault on Congress.
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