Federal prosecutors in Washington on Tuesday filed a motion asking US District Judge Carl Nichols to issue an injunction against the former Trump adviser. Steve Bannon to begin his service four months imprisonment after an appeals hearing last week upheld the verdict On charges of contempt of Congress.
One The petition, filed on Tuesday, Prosecutors said there was “no legal basis” for the judge to continue Bannon’s sentence after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Bannon’s appeal was dismissed on all grounds.
As a result, there is no longer a “substantial issue of law warranting a reversal or an order for a new trial,” prosecutors wrote in the motion. “In these circumstances, the Court will order the accused to be ‘imprisoned’, so the suspension of sentence should be lifted.”
Nichols has not yet ruled on the motion. But in an order issued Tuesday, the judge ordered Bannon to respond to the motion by Thursday.
The office of Bannon’s lawyer, David I. Schoen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It was Bannon He was sentenced to 4 months of imprisonment and then fined $6,500 in October 2022 found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a summons by House Committee on Jan. 6 submit documents and statements. The judge, however, stayed the sentence pending Bannon’s appeal.
A three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week Bannon’s sentence was upheld.
In a statement after the appeals court decision last week, Schoen said he plans to ask the full D.C. Circuit to hear his client’s case.
“This is the next step,” he said.
Rebecca Shabad contributed.