The House filed a brief Monday in the appeal of Trump ally Steve Bannon that seeks to resurrect legal arguments that the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could not issue subpoenas because it was illegitimate.
The chamber’s filing at the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit takes the position of House Republican leaders to argue the panel broke the chamber’s rules when it was set up.
Bannon is currently serving a four-month sentence as he appeals his convictions on two counts of contempt of Congress, filed after he ignored a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee seeking documents and his testimony about events leading up to the attack.
