Supreme Court Returns Bannon Contempt of Congress Case to Lower Court

US sought to dismiss the indictment although Trump ally served four months in prison.

Image: Stephen Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, arrives for sentencing at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington in 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

 

Michael Macagnone of Roll Call reports: “The Supreme Court sent Stephen Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction back to lower courts Monday to address the Trump administration’s attempt to wipe out the case against the president’s former adviser.

Bannon had appealed his conviction to the justices after both a federal trial judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the rare conviction for contempt of Congress. A jury convicted Bannon in 2022 for his refusal to testify and provide documents to the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol…”

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