will have to report to jail on Monday after the nation’s highest court declined to indulge his pleas for a last-minute reprieve.
Bannon, 70, was sentenced to four months in jail in 2022 for contempt of Congress after he blew off a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. He has spent two years since then trying every avenue of appeal, arguing that he was only following the advice of his lawyer, who told him then-President Donald Trump had evoked executive privilege. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered Bannon to report to jail by July 1 after his appeal in the D.C.
“The application for release pending appeal presented to the Chief Justice and by him referred to the court is denied,” it said. NBC News reported that Bannon has already been assigned an inmate number by the federal Bureau of Prisons: 05635-509. His sentence will overlap with that of former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who started his four-month jail stint in March after being convicted on the same charges as Bannon.