Steve Bannon, Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President during Donald Trump’s first term and now host of the conservative podcast War Room, just got his July 2022 contempt of Congress conviction vacated by the Supreme Court.
The order clears the way for Bannon to have the case dismissed by a lower court.
Bannon had declined to appear before the “House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol" — the notorious J6 committee — and was sentenced to four months in prison, which he served in 2024, and fined $6,500.
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It’s unclear what’s behind their move:
The Court did not explain its decision. There were no noted dissents.
In a brief order, the Court noted that the Trump Justice Department has moved to drop the indictment against Bannon and returned the case to a lower court for dismissal.
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His criminal convictions for contempt of Congress are set to be cleared after SCOTUS paved the way for the Trump Administration to dismiss the case.
Bannon argued in his appeal that he did not… pic.twitter.com/cpeUPUja99
Bannon argued in his appeal that he did not willfully ignore the House committee subpoena but was relying on advice from his attorneys to not respond.
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The case closely resembles the one against former Trump aide Peter Navarro, who served as the Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in Term One and is now Senior Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing. In 2023, he was convicted on the same two charges as Bannon for failing to appear before the J6 committee. He also served four months in prison.
Trump's Department of Justice has shown little appetite for fighting for the Biden-era convictions to be upheld.
“Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who represents the government before the high court, separately said in a filing with the justices that dismissal of Bannon's criminal case was in the "interests of justice."
Meanwhile, Navarro is still trying to get his conviction overturned. While the Trump administration has not explicitly sought to dismiss his case, it refused to defend the conviction at the D.C. Circuit, which led to a one-sided oral argument in late 2025. A ruling has not yet been issued.
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