Supreme Court Clears Bannon, Shakes Accountability

0:00The Supreme Court just handed Steve Bannon a big win, clearing the path to toss his conviction for dodging a congressional subpoena on the January 6th Capitol riot probe. Prided by the Trump team, the Justice's overruled a lower appeals court, letting a trial judge drop the case in the name of Justice. This comes after Bannon served his full four-month sentence back in 2022 for contempt of Congress. The Justice Department, which pushed the charges under President Biden, flipped course once Trump returned to the White House last year. Folks are calling it mostly symbolic since he's already done his time, but it underscores the new admins' push to unwind old cases. Bannon had claimed executive privilege from his Trump days, though critics said that didn't hold since he'd left the White House years earlier. In a similar move, the court greenlit action on former Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Biden fell's bribery conviction he'd served 16 months before Trump pardoned him last year. Lower courts now weigh dismissing those two.

1:01All this shakes up accountability debates, but Bannon's separate New York fraud plea on that border wall scheme stays intact. No change is there. Keeps the legal spotlight burning bright. That wraps Canada News Today, brought to you with AI. I'm Corey, with the story.