Supreme Court chief justice denies ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro's bid to stave off prison sentence
Source: AP
Updated 5:52 PM EDT, March 18, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.
Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction.
Navarro has maintained that he couldnt cooperate with the committee because former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege. Lower courts have rejected that argument, finding he couldnt prove Trump had actually invoked it.
The Monday order signed by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency applications from Washington, D.C., said he has no basis to disagree with the appeals court ruling, though he said the finding doesnt affect the eventual outcome of Navarros appeal. His attorney Stanley Woodward declined to comment.
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Irish_Dem
(47,087 posts)bluestarone
(16,941 posts)About time. one more goes to jail!!
BumRushDaShow
(129,016 posts)Some bounce for ya -
bluestarone
(16,941 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,016 posts)bluestarone
(16,941 posts)Marcuse
(7,482 posts)Kennah
(14,265 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)Kennah
(14,265 posts)Prairie Gates
(1,010 posts)Another faceplant from the Lawyer Brigade.
question everything
(47,479 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)BlueKota
(1,730 posts)but too little too late to change my opinion that 6 of them are still lowlife, sleaze bucket partisan hacks who bow to the evil orange.
republianmushroom
(13,594 posts)pfitz59
(10,381 posts)Might earn him a stay.