Former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon gestures as he speaks to members of the media while leaving the federal courthouse after a judge ordered him to surrender by July 1 to begin serving his four-month prison term, Washington, U.S., June 6, 2024.
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the final effort by former top Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to avoid reporting to jail next week for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Bannon, 70, must begin his four-month jail term on Monday.
The high court issued the decision in a one-sentence order, which noted only that Bannon’s “application for release pending appeal presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
The onetime top advisor to then-President Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court on June 21 to pause his prison surrender date pending his efforts to appeal his sentence.
An attorney for Bannon did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the court’s order Friday afternoon.
Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress in federal court in Washington, D.C., in July 2022.
A D.C. federal appeals court upheld that conviction in May, rejecting Bannon’s defense that he had not broken the law because his lawyer had advised him not to comply with the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena.
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