Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejects his last-minute appeal

WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is to He is expected to report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute bid to avoid his four-month sentence for defying the House committee’s Jan. 6 subpoenas.

Bannon was convicted in Washington of two counts of contempt of Congress nearly two years ago, in July 2022, and sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols had suspended his sentence while he appealed his conviction, which was rejected in May. Nichols then ordered Bannon to report to prison by July 1, saying there was no reason to continue delaying the sentence. An appeals court later rejected Bannon’s appeal of the decision, leaving only the Supreme Court to help him avoid incarceration.

Bannon was held in contempt of Congress after ignoring the commission’s Jan. 6 request for documents and testimony as part of its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election. 2020 and to remain in power in the period before the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Bannon’s lawyer told the Supreme Court that he relied on his lawyer’s advice, saying he expected that questions of executive privilege are resolved. But as federal prosecutors noted in their 2022 sentencing memo, there was no operational claim of executive privilege because Bannon had been part of the Trump administration years earlier, not during the period examined by the commission of January 6.

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to four months in federal prison on the same charges, is completing his sentence after reporting to prison in March.

Bannon, who is 70, has already been assigned an inmate number by the Federal Bureau of Prisons: 05635-509.