Bannon's Conviction Dismissed, Trump's Power Shift

0:00It's April 6th, Global News Today starts now. AI powered and worldwide. I'm Cory with the story. Steve Bannon, longtime Trump ally, scored a big win Monday from the Supreme Court. The order paves the way to dismiss his conviction for dodging a subpoena from the House Committee probing the January 6th Capitol attack. He got hit with contempt of Congress back in 2022 and served four months behind bars. The Trump administration pushed the justices to scrap an appeals court ruling that backed the conviction. Now a trial judge can greenlight dropping the case in the interest of justice. It's mostly symbolic since Bannon already did his time. People are buzzing about the timing with Trump back in office. Reaction split along party lines was supporters calling it a fix for political persecution and critics seeing it as dodging accountability. Same deal for former Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, who Trump pardoned last year after 16 months in prison for bribery charges. The Justice Department filed against Bannon under Biden, but flipped course after Trump returned.

1:05Bannon had claimed executive privilege from his chats with Trump, but court shot that down since he was a private citizen by then, fired from the White House in 2017. This clears the federal contempt rep, but Bannon's separate New York plea for border wall fraud stays intact. No jail time there keeps the spotlight on how fast things shift in DC power plays.