Bannon's Contempt Conviction May Be Dismissed

0:00On April 6, Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction looks set for dismissal after the Supreme Court stepped in. On Monday, they vacated a lower court's decision upholding the charges and kicked the case back to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This follows a motion from the Trump administration to drop the indictment entirely, calling it in the interest of justice. Bannon got hit with two misdemeanor counts back in a D.C. federal court for ignoring a subpoena from the House Committee probing the January 6th insurrection. He refused to testify, claiming he followed his lawyer's advice on executive privilege issues. An appeals court had backed the conviction, leading him to serve four months in prison this year. He's no stranger to the spotlight, having been Trump's chief strategist early on, and now running the Influential War Room podcast for the Make America. Great Again Crowd. His legal team pushed hard on separation of powers' arguments, saying the court's blurred lines between willful defiance and just not complying. The Trump team is using prosecutorial discretion to end this, even though Bannon already did

1:04his time. Separately, he pled guilty to fraud charges in New York over a border wall fundraising scheme but got a federal pardon from Trump on those. With the clock ticking on further reviews, this could wrap up as a clean win for Bannon, wiping the record despite the prison stand already behind him.