Intent on vindication after spending four months in prison last year, Donald Trump’s White House trade adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal appeals court on Sunday night to force the justice department to explain why it would not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.
The 13-page request, if granted by the US court of appeals for the DC circuit, would in effect require the justice department to detail publicly when – if ever – it would charge a presidential adviser who defied a congressional subpoena claiming executive privilege protections.
