Lawyer for Steve Bannon, former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist and event host. operation room The podcast issued the statement after an appeals court upheld its contempt charges for defying a subpoena from the special committee on January 6th.
David Shawn, Bannon’s attorney issued He said in a statement that the court’s decision was “wrong” and reflected “a very dangerous view of the standard of criminal responsibility for any defendant” in the country.
Steve Bannon, an adviser to former President Donald Trump, listens to attorney David Schoen speak to the media outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse on June 15, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“Many fundamentally important constitutional issues are at issue in this case,” Schoen said in a statement. “Today’s decision is wrong as a matter of law and reflects a very dangerous view of the standards of criminal responsibility for defendants in our country and the standards of future political abuse of Congressional hearings.”
Before becoming CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016, Bannon served as executive chairman of Breitbart News.
Bannon then joined the Trump administration as chief strategist and left in August 2017. Bannon later returned to Breitbart News, but left again in early 2018.
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Mr Schoen’s statement came in response to a 20-page report. ruling By a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Circuit in Washington, DC. According to reports, the judges’ decision is likely to result in Bannon being sentenced to four months in prison. Axios.
This comes after Bannon was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the now-defunct Special Committee on January 6th.
“It is unconscionable to hold criminally responsible civilians who respond to subpoenas in a way that their lawyers say is the only way the law allows, especially when constitutional principles like executive privilege are involved. ,” Shane’s statement added. “The panel today found that despite the interpretation given to the word ‘deliberately’ in the criminal law context, which has required a certain determination that the defendant believed his conduct was wrong, , the court held that the judgment was bound by the 1961 Licavoli decision.
Former White House adviser Peter Navarro became the first Trump administration official to be sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from a special committee on January 6th. Navarro reported to prison to begin his sentence in March.
