Federal prosecutors are asking the judge in Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress case to order him to start serving his four-month prison sentence. This comes after an appeals court recently upheld his conviction.
Prosecutors argue that Judge Carl Nichols has no legal reason to extend the stay on Bannon’s sentence. This comes after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals made a final ruling rejecting all grounds for Bannon’s appeal.
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Prosecutors stated in their filing on Tuesday that as a result, there is no longer a “substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial.”
The timing of Nichols’ ruling on the request remains uncertain.
“I can’t believe they want to silence the voice of MAGA,” Bannon expressed his astonishment to ABC News regarding Tuesday’s news.
In October 2022, Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for contempt. However, Nichols agreed to delay the jail term while Bannon appealed the ruling.
In their opinion released on Friday, the three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stated that the information requested in the trial subpoenas was not relevant to the elements of the contempt offense or any affirmative defense that Bannon had the right to present at trial.
The judges reached the conclusion that the conviction and sentence have been affirmed.
