A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected a bid by Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, to stay away from prison while he fights his conviction for failing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon is due to report to prison on July 1 to serve a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, granted prosecutors’ request to send Bannon to prison after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld his conviction earlier this month.
Bannon’s lawyers had asked the appeals court to allow him to remain free while they fight his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
Bannon was convicted nearly two years ago on two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to testify before a House committee on Jan. 6 and another for refusing to provide documents related to Trump, a Republican,’s involvement in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
