Steve Bannon is hardly the only person in Trump’s orbit to resist cooperating with the Jan. 6 committee.
Federal District Court Judge Carl Nichols — a Trump nominee — will decide
But even if Nichols determines that Bannon deserves time behind bars, don’t expect him to be remanded, or taken to prison, immediately. That’s because Bannon intends to appeal his conviction after he is sentenced — and Judge Nichols, who has repeatedly signaled sympathy to Bannon’s legal argument, could decide that any sentence should be stayed pending appeal.
In the lead-up to his trial, Bannon argued to Judge Nichols that Licavoli shouldn’t govern his case because it relies on cases that have themselves been overruled and the Supreme Court has clarified what it means to be willful in criminal contexts. But: While Bannon might have ample “arguments to the Court of Appeals on why Licavoli should be overruled,” he himself “has no power to disregard a valid and on-point or seemingly on-point holding from a higher court.
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