MOVE TO DISMISS

SCOTUS Backs Trump’s Jailed MAGA Architect

The Supreme Court threw out the lower court’s decision to uphold his conviction.

The Supreme Court paved the way for the dismissal of the conviction against Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon. The longtime adviser to the president has already served a four-month sentence for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the investigation into the attack on January 6. But the Trump administration told the country’s highest court that it was in the “interests of justice” for his conviction to be dismissed. The Supreme Court’s decision overturned an appeals court decision to uphold his conviction. In February, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to remand the case to the lower court for dismissal. The court’s decision was announced in a brief two-sentence order on Monday that sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit “for further consideration in light of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment.” Bannon, a key MAGA architect and right-wing podcaster, was convicted by a jury in July 2022 after he refused to testify before the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The Daily Beast reached out to Bannon as well as the Justice Department for comment on the Supreme Court’s order.

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