Bannon convicted
You don’t get to blow off a subpoena just because you once worked for Trump.
A federal jury has found former Trump adviser Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
The verdict: After nearly two days of hearing evidence and witness testimony, the jury reached a unanimous verdict on the two contempt charges in less than three hours.
Bannon smiled as the verdict was read, looking back and forth between the courtroom deputy and the foreperson. Bannon’s team did not mount a defense during the trial, and he did not take the stand. Speaking to reporters after the conviction, his attorney David Schoen said they planned to appeal the verdict, calling it a “bullet proof appeal.”
In a Justice Department news release touting the conviction, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves said that the “subpoena to Stephen Bannon was not an invitation that could be rejected or ignored.”
Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
Caeli cadent if he is ever prosecuted and convicted for treason.
Porcos volant.
I don’t know about that. The courts tend to take a dim view about those Sovereign Citizen defenses.
Do wonder though if Bannon is going to insist his conviction can’t stand without Trump’s testimony, and of course Trump would waste time coming up with increasingly daft arguments about why he can’t be made to testify till he or Bannon eventually dies.
If the appeal is to the *current* Supreme Court, it might actually *be* bullet proof.