A divided federal appeals court panel in Washington rejected Steve Bannon’s emergency bid to stay out of prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. The rejection moves the Donald Trump ally a step closer to reporting to prison July 1 to serve his four-month sentence, though the Supreme Court can still intervene. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit split 2-1 in its rejection Thursday night.
” Another former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, recently lost a similar bid to stay out of prison pending appeal of his own contempt of Congress conviction; he’s currently serving that sentence. Navarro took his failed attempt all the way to the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice John Roberts took the rare step of writing an opinion explaining why Navarro wasn’t allowed to remain free while he appealed. Both Bannon and Navarro were convicted for refusing to comply with the House Jan.