Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s longtime ally, is set to turn himself in to prison in Connecticut today after the supreme court rejected his last-minute appeal to avoid prison time.
The 70-year old was ordered by the supreme court on Friday to report to FCI Danbury, a minimum security federal prison in Connecticut, on 1 July. He is expected to serve a four-month sentence following his convictions over his defiance of subpoenas surrounding the House’s January 6 insurrection investigation.
In July 2022, Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and was later sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022.
Federal prosecutors say Bannon believed that he was “above the law” when he refused a deposition with the January 6 House select committee, in addition to refusing to turn over documents on his efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results.
The supreme court’s order came in response to Bannon asking the country’s highest court earlier this month to delay his prison sentence in an emergency application.
Bannon has accused the convictions against him of being politically motivated, with his lawyer David Schoen saying that the case raises “serious constitutional issues” that need to be investigated by the supreme court.
In an interview last Sunday, the former Trump adviser told ABC host Jonathan Karl that he considers himself a “political prisoner”.
“It won’t change me. It will not suppress my voice. My voice will not be suppressed when I’m there,” he said, adding that he has no regrets about defying the subpoenas.
“If it took me going to prison to finally get the House to start to move, to start to delegitimize the illegitimate J6 committee, then, hey, guess what, my going to prison is worth it,” he said.
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
