Pelosi and other top Democrats subpoenaed over Bannon contempt case

Steve Bannon outside court in Washington in March. Whether the subpoenas stand depends on how Judge Carl Nichols rules at a hearing next week. Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/Rex/Shutterstock

Top House Democrats, including speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the members of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, have been subpoenaed to testify in court in connection with the criminal contempt case against Donald Trump’s one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon.

The subpoenas – which were accepted by the House counsel, Doug Letter, last Friday, according to a source familiar with the matter – compel the handover of documents and testimony about internal decision-making that led to Bannon’s contempt case.