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Posted on 02/09/2026 6:02:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, said a federal judge should dismiss Bannon’s indictment “in the interests of justice.”
The Justice Department is taking steps to throw out Stephen K. Bannon’s conviction for defying a congressional subpoena about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.
In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court, where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against him.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche characterized the move, in a statement, as a course correction from “the prior administration’s weaponization of the justice system.”
Bannon, a top Trump strategist who left the White House in 2017, served four months in federal custody in 2024 after a jury in U.S. District Court in D.C. found him guilty of contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Trump last year pardoned more than 1,500 defendants who were charged in that event, in which a mob of his supporters disrupted the vote count to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Trump has also directed a purge of prosecutors and federal investigators who worked on those cases.
The Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas in part sought information about the “Green Bay Sweep,” a plan from Bannon and other Trump advisers to have supporters in Congress contest the electoral results from six swing states as Trump pushed false claims that the election had been stolen from him.
Bannon had argued he was following legal advice and waiting for his claims of executive privilege to be resolved when he was prosecuted and eventually convicted of two counts...
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They've already served the four months, after all.
I am for both: Pardoning Bannon and Navarro, and making the Clintons testify.
Bannon and Navarro had a valid legal reason for refusing to appear after being subpoenaed, that of Executive Privilege.
The Clintons have no reason.
Bannon is not the good guy people think
He was way chummier with Epstein that we thought
Not with girls, but he was moving money for him
Is someone planning on running Bannon for public office, and that’s why a pardon is being pursued?
He did defy the subpoena from an illegally constituted committee. It should have been tossed on appeal but wasn’t. Tough call, but there should have been no prison time.
Friend of Epstein likely to get the break IMHO
It’s weird how this Epstein thing worked and some folks like Bannon seem to have Teflon when it comes down to the Epstein matter.
No fan of J6 prosecutions at all Bannon should get break on that but I have questions about him and Epstein Bannon trying to rehab Epstein image with video interviews etc. etc. very creepy indeed.
Bannon went to jail. That's some break.
Bannon went of his way to try to help Epstein rehab his image. Why?
He will get the break now his conviction undone by DOJ
He had to sit in prison for four months.
Bannon and Navarro were both under executive privilege. They did nothing wrong.
” January 6th “ is the last hill for The Washington Compost to die upon.
In my comment, I was just going by the law. Was he issued a subpoena? Yes. Did he show up and testify? No.
It was not a question of the legitimacy of the "investigation," which was beyond suspect. Should he have been sentenced to jail? Obviously not.
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