The Supreme Court tossed an appeals court ruling that upheld the conviction of Trump ally Steve Bannon on Monday, paving the way for the contempt case against him to be dismissed.
Bannon was convicted in federal court in 2022 for defying a subpoena issued by the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, and he ultimately served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 after losing an appeal. The high court announced in an orders list released Monday morning that it had decided to send the case back down to a lower federal court for a likely dismissal, as the Justice Department requested earlier this year.
The DOJ asked the Supreme Court to take up the case, toss the conviction, and send it back to federal district court, where it had asked for the case against Bannon to be dismissed. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in the petition to the high court that “the
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