Do not pass Go. Bannon ordered to Prison on Monday.
From the Washington Post:
"The Supreme Court on Friday turned aside Stephen K. Bannon’s last bid to delay his July 1 deadline to report to prison, leaving the Donald Trump political strategist and right-wing podcaster facing a court order to turn himself in to a low-security federal prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.
The high court’s rejection came in a one-sentence order: “The application for release pending appeal presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied.” The court did not state its reasons, but lower courts said Bannon failed to raise substantial legal questions over his two-count conviction for refusing to provide documents or testimony to a House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon had asked the justices for an emergency stay on June 21, after his D.C.-based trial judge and the judges who heard the appeal of his conviction rejected similar requests. Both courts said Bannon had little chance of success in arguing that he was relying on advice from an attorney and did not “willfully” break the law by ignoring the congressional subpoena.
The court’s rebuff of Bannon came after it declined a similar stay-out-of-jail request from Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, 74. He is scheduled to complete a four-month prison sentence on July 17, after becoming the first person incarcerated for contempt of Congress since the Cold War era. Navarro was convicted in September of the same charges as Bannon, after writing in a memoir that he and Bannon had a plan to keep Joe Biden from taking office.
