The Justice Department took steps Monday to unwind the contempt of Congress case against Stephen Bannon, who already served four months in prison for a conviction that he has appealed to the Supreme Court.
A jury convicted the President Donald Trump ally in 2022 for his refusal to testify and provide documents to the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the conviction in 2024.
On Monday, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, filed a motion seeking to dismiss the case against Bannon in a way that would mean it could not be brought again.
