A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a contempt of Congress conviction against Trump ally Peter Navarro tied to his defiance of subpoenas from the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously upheld Navarro’s two-count contempt conviction for refusing to cooperate with the panel. Navarro, who is and was a senior counselor to President Donald Trump, had argued that executive privilege applied to the subpoena, but the three-judge panel found that a lower court correctly ruled that Trump never invoked that privilege.
