The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the best way for President Donald Trump’s administration to drop the federal government’s criminal case against Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser convicted in 2022 of defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Supreme Court’s resolution follows a transfer by federal prosecutors in February to drop the indictment introduced throughout President Joe Biden’s administration. Both the Justice Department and Bannon had requested the excessive court docket to toss out an appeals court docket ruling upholding the conviction and ship the case again to a trial court docket in order that the unique fees against him could possibly be dismissed.