DOJ seeks to undo Bannon's conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

[LetMyPeopleVote]

The U.S. attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, said a federal judge should dismiss Bannon’s indictment “in the interests of justice.”

Simply disgraceful:

DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

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— Frank Amari (@frankamari.bsky.social) 2026-02-10T14:23:36.948Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/09/steve-bannon-justice-conviction-january-6

The Justice Department is taking steps to throw out Stephen K. Bannon’s conviction for defying a congressional subpoena about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.

In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court, where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against him.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche characterized the move, in a statement, as a course correction from “the prior administration’s weaponization of the justice system.”

Bannon, a top Trump strategist who left the White House in 2017, served four months in federal custody in 2024 after a jury in U.S. District Court in D.C. found him guilty of contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Trump last year pardoned more than 1,500 defendants who were charged in that event, in which a mob of his supporters disrupted the vote count to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Trump has also directed a purge of prosecutors and federal investigators who worked on those cases.

[Dave Bowman]

1. "in the interests of justice." She couldn't recognize Justice if it bit her in the ass.

[johnnyfins]

2. No biggie if it gets dismissed.

This slimy guttersnipe will be held accountable by the law eventually.

[Initech]

6. Jeannie Pirro shouldn't be in charge of anything. She should be in prison.

[Red Mountain]

3. Her indictment record might as well be a negative number......

at the rate she's going.

[deRien]

4. And will he

want a billion or two dollars in compensation?

[Initech]

5. No, it's in the interests of Donald Trump, let's make that clear.

The interests of justice would be for Trump, Bannon and the rest of this bullshit criminal cabal to be in prison.