The Daily Populous Friday June 7th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by cnbc.com and submitted by mvanigan

Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives at the federal courthouse to find out if or when a judge will order him to jail on June 6, 2024 in Washington, DC.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a hearing Thursday ordered former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his criminal contempt of Congress conviction.

The order by Judge Carl Nichols came three weeks after federal prosecutors urged him to lift a stay on Bannon's sentence pending an appeal of his conviction for failing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

A federal appeals court panel in a unanimous ruling on May 10 upheld Bannon's conviction in the case.

At Thursday's hearing, Bannon's lawyer David Schoen reacted emotionally to Nichols' order.

"One thing you have to learn as a lawyer is that when the judge has made his decision, you don't stand up and start yelling," Nichols said, according to NBC News.

"I've had enough," the judge said as Schoen continued talking.

The lawyer replied, "I'm not yelling."

"You're sending a man to prison who thought he was complying with the law, we don't do that in my system," said Schoen, who argued that Nichols' ruling was "contrary to our system of justice."

Nichols shot back, "I think you should sit down."

Outside of court, Schoen told reporters, "The decision has it wrong factually in many many ways, it's a horrible decision."

He said Bannon's appeal needs to be taken by the Supreme Court. Schoen has argued that Bannon was not guilty of contempt because Bannon's lawyer at the time had advised him not to comply with the House's subpoena.

Bannon told reporters Thursday, "I've got great lawyers, and we're gonna go all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to."

"There's nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up," he said. "There's not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up"

As Bannon walked away, a protestor yelled, "Lock them up!"

"You're a coup plotter!" the protestor yelled. "It's a failed coup!"

It is possible that Bannon's jail sentence could be stayed by an order of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, or by the U.S. Supreme Court.

But Bannon's hopes of winning a stay of his sentence or a reversal of his conviction at either of those courts is, legally speaking, a long shot.

In March, Peter Navarro, another ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, began serving a four-month federal jail sentence after the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his conviction for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 House committee.

CaptainNoBoat on June 6th, 2024 at 17:01 UTC »

Fun reminders in light of this wonderful news:

Bannon has a trial for the "Build the Wall" campaign in which he fleeced Trump supporters out of millions of dollars scheduled for September 23rd.

An associate of Bannon has already been imprisoned for it.

This conviction will make his sentencing worse.

The charges are felonies and much more serious than what he's facing with contempt of Congress.

They are state crimes that cannot be pardoned by a President.

The prosecutor is Alvin Bragg and the judge is Merchan.

Link to indictment

Etzell on June 6th, 2024 at 16:55 UTC »

Congrats to Steve Bannon on his upcoming 4 months of sobriety!

LettuceFew5248 on June 6th, 2024 at 16:39 UTC »

It’s so weird how the Bannon, Stone, Flynn, Manafort and Papadopoulos pardons and clemencies are just forgotten.

Honestly, this alone may be the most egregious and blatant example of corruption by an American President in history - and it never gets mentioned.

How does Bannon’s name EVER get mentioned without this coming up?