Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former White House official, must report to federal prison next week, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, denying his final effort to stay free.
“The application for release pending appeal filed before the Chief Justice and referred to the Supreme Court is dismissed,” the high court said in a brief order, which was not heard by any dissenters.
Bannon, 70, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress nearly two years ago for refusing to testify before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and for failing to turn over documents to a Democratic-led select committee.
He was sentenced to four months in prison and must report to prison by July 1.
Bannon will serve his sentence at a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.
Last month, a three-judge panel upheld Bannon’s July 2022 conviction, and last week, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C., ordered the prison sentence for the former president’s ally.
Bannon will become the second Trump aide to face prison time in connection with failing to comply with a January 6 subpoena from a House committee.
Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Trump, also began serving a four-month prison term in March after his appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected.
Bannon was fired by Trump less than a year into his administration, but the two have since reconciled and together have made extensive claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Shortly before leaving office on Jan. 20, 2021, President Trump, 78, pardoned Bannon from federal fraud and money laundering charges related to a private fundraiser that his former chief strategist held to purportedly raise funds for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
