Former President Donald Trump’s adviser Peter Navarro has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider his plea to be released from prison in the long term. request Filed on Tuesday.
This is the second time Navarro has asked the nation’s highest court to release him as he contests his conviction. Chief Justice John Roberts denied Navarro’s initial request last month, the day before he was scheduled to go to prison on March 19.
Mr. Navarro’s lawyers asked Justice Neil Gorsuch to scrutinize the request, which Mr. Roberts denied. The Supreme Court allows parties to resubmit claims to individual judges if an emergency appeal is denied by another single judge.
“We respectfully request that the Honorable Associate Judge Gorsuch renew our application for an order suspending enforcement of the district court’s order requiring Dr. Navarro to submit to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons,” Navarro’s attorneys , said Mr. Stan M. Brand and Mr. Stanley. E. Woodward Jr. said:
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for failing to provide investigative documents and failing to take a deposition before the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Ta.
He argued that there was no need to provide the requested documents because they were subject to President Trump’s executive privilege.
He is serving a four-month sentence at a maximum security prison in Miami, Florida.
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