A federal judge on Thursday ordered Steve Bannon to begin serving his prison sentence by July 1. The former Trump adviser will serve a four-month stint in prison for defying January 6 Committee subpoenas.
Bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt in July 2022 and sentenced in October of that year, but his sentencing had been delayed while he appealed the ruling. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected the appeal in May.
Judge Carl J. Nichols sided with federal prosecutors on Thursday who had argued that, because his appeal had been rejected, there was no longer any basis for the sentencing hold.
“I don’t believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. Bannon’s sentence exists any longer,” Nichols said, referencing the Court of Appeals panel decision. “I no longer consider that his appeal raises substantial questions of law of a kind likely to reverse conviction.”
Bannon attorney David Schoen argued that the Court of Appeals panel decision was insufficient, saying the matter would not be resolved until the full D.C. Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in.
“By the Government’s own account, these issues can only be fully reviewed on their merits by the Court of Appeals sitting en banc or by the United States Supreme Court,” Schoen wrote in a filing. “Therefore there is no basis for considering the removal of the stay of the sentence pending appeal until the appeals process has fully run its course.”
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