Well, after listening to the oral arguments on the 14th Amendment disqualification case, I could use a boost. And what do you know. We have this:
A federal D.C. judge on Thursday denied ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to stay out of prison while he appeals his recent contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison last month after being convicted in September on two counts of contempt of Congress — one for failing to produce documents related to the probe and another for skipping his deposition.
Federal judge Amit Mehta dismissed Mister Navarro’s arguments that the prosecution was political with this: “Defendant’s cynical, self-serving claim of political bias poses no question at all, let alone a ‘substantial’ one.”
And there being no substantial questions of law remaining, Mister Navarro was ordered to report to prison at the direction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
As far as Mister Bannon (and his own pending four-month sentence), his judge let him roam free pending appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress. The appeal was argued in November but a decision has yet to be rendered.