Steve Bannon is finally headed to prison for refusing to answer for his role on January 6th.
After a busy day of gutting executive authority, criminalizing homelessness, and protecting January 6th rioters, the Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort from Steve Bannon to avoid a prison sentence, setting him up for a July 1 report to jail.
Bannon was charged with contempt of Congress after denying to answer a subpoena from the January 6th select committee, and sentenced nearly two years ago to a four-month stint before a deluge of appeals set his sentence back.
In the one-page order, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts denied Bannon’s plea for release pending another round of appeals, exhausting his options ahead of the sentence. The Muslim ban architect must report to a Danbury, Connecticut federal prison on Monday.
The podcaster and former Trump advisor has gone to great lengths to avoid accountability, enlisting House Speaker Mike Johnson in his crusade to overturn his sentence. The speaker, who was prepared to file an amicus brief in support of Bannon, previously blasted the January 6th committee’s contempt order as “tainted.”
Bannon, whose previous legal troubles stemming from a fraudulent border wall fundraising scheme were squashed by a presidential pardon from Donald Trump, has been assigned an inmate number by the federal Bureau of Prisons. He is slated for release a week ahead of the November election.
