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The conviction for Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress was overturned by the US Supreme Court, remanding the case to a lower court where it is likely to be dismissed. In 2022, Bannon, one of Trump's most prominent supporters, was found guilty of failing to comply with subpoenas issued by lawmakers for information regarding the riot at the Capitol in January 2021. In "the interests of justice," the Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court to dismiss Bannon's case. Because Bannon has already served a four-month prison sentence in the case at a federal facility with low security in Connecticut, any potential dismissal would be more symbolic. In Bannon's 2022 case, an appeals court upheld the jury's verdict; however, the Supreme Court's decision on Monday overturns that decision and sends the case back to a lower federal court in Washington, DC. The brief unsigned order from the Supreme Court cited "the pending motion to dismiss the indictment".
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Over the past ten years, Bannon has been in and around Trump's political circles. He has a lot of credit for helping Trump win in 2016 and worked as a White House adviser during the president's first term through a lot of turmoil. Bannon has been one of Trump's biggest supporters on the right outside the White House. He supports the idea of Trump winning a third term as president, which is against the US Constitution.
Bannon was prosecuted by President Joe Biden's administration, and the Supreme Court had previously declined to intervene in Bannon's subsequent jail sentence. After losing in lower courts, the host of the influential War Room podcast asked the Supreme Court to reconsider his case last year. The Trump administration did not challenge Bannon's new attempt, and the government believed "that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice", US Solicitor General D John Sauer wrote in his response.
In accordance with the instructions issued by the Supreme Court, the lower federal court will once more take up Bannon's case after the government files a motion to dismiss it.
Source: BBC
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