There’s something espcially gratifying about this piece of legal news, hoisted by his own petard.
Former Trump White House senior strategist Steve Bannon has been ordered by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. to surrender to federal prison by July 1.
At a Thursday morning hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols, who was appointed by Donald Trump in 2019, the defendant’s bail was revoked after a lengthy, and ultimately unsuccessful, effort to reverse his two convictions on contempt of Congress charges.
As Law&Crime previously reported, prosecutors asked the court to lift a stay of Bannon’s four-month sentence roughly two weeks ago after his appeal was rejected by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
That request came by way of a May 14 motion to lift the stay of sentence pending appeal filed in the D.C. District Court. Bannon, conversely, argued the court lacked authority to grant the request.
