Steve Bannon Scores Supreme Court Win, Clearing the Way for His Conviction to Be Tossed

The Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling against conservative commentator Steve Bannon, paving the way for his 2022 contempt of Congress conviction to be removed.

Bannon served four months in federal prison beginning in July 2024 after being convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress by a Washington, D.C., jury for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, established by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Bannon — who served as Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign CEO and as an aide in the Trump White House in 2017 — had invoked executive privilege regarding communications that he had with the president in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.

Executive privilege is the right of presidents to withhold sensitive communications from Congress, the courts, or the public regarding deliberations he has with his advisers.

CBS News reported that a three-judge panel of a Washington, D.C.,