A federal appeals court in Washington will hear arguments Thursday over the contempt of Congress conviction of Steve Bannon, a former White House official and Donald Trump ally who did not comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Bannon has sought to overturn the two contempt convictions from July 2022, attacking the legitimacy of the subpoena from a House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack and arguing he should have been allowed to assert executive privilege and other defenses at trial.
“The lower court erred by prohibiting Mr. Bannon from putting his defenses before the jury in this case, in violation of his rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments to the United States Constitution,” Bannon’s attorney David Schoen wrote in a brief to the court.
