Steve Bannon, once the chief strategist for Donald Trump’s presidential administration, is asking a federal appeals court to let him stay out of prison as he appeals his 4-month sentence and guilty verdict in contempt of Congress for violating a House subpoena.
The sentence, slated to begin on July 1, comes after Bannon’s refusal to answer to Congress over his role in the January 6 attacks on the electoral vote count certification of Joe Biden. The sentence, originally stayed by Trump-appointed D.C. District Court justice Carl Nichols, was put back on schedule by a three-justice panel of the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals.
