On March 19, 2024, former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro held a press conference in Miami, Florida before turning himself into federal prison.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by former President Donald Trump’s former adviser Peter Navarro to be released from prison while he was indicted for ignoring a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol incident. He was sentenced to four months in prison and appealed.
this Order The denial of Navarro’s request to be released pending appeals only said his request was filed with Judge Neil Gorsuch and presented to the court, which denied it.
It’s the second time in six weeks that the high court has rejected Navarro’s efforts to suspend his prison sentence while he continues to fight his guilty verdict on two counts of contempt of Congress.
Navarro, 74, surrendered to the Miami federal prison on March 19 and began serving his sentence.
Navarro was indicted for refusing to comply with a subpoena from a House special committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021, when a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, temporarily delaying the transfer of power to President Joe Biden transfer.
Navarro claimed that the doctrine of executive privilege prevented him from responding to the subpoena. But U.S. Deputy Attorney General Elizabeth Prelogar pointed out in a statement in March that most of the information sought by the committee did not fall within the scope of executive privilege, and Trump had not asserted executive privilege from the beginning. Archive to the Supreme Court.
She was responding to Navarro’s request to the high court on March 15 for his release pending an appeal against his conviction.
Chief Justice John Roberts denied the request in a brief statement on March 18 View He found “no reason to disagree” with the lower court’s ruling that Navarro “waived” arguments related to executive privilege. Roberts noted that the release process “is separate from his appeal on the merits.”
On April 2, Navarro’s lawyers again filed for an order to stop reporting to prison, this time asking Gorsuch to accept the request.
The lawyer pointed out that Navarro had already been in jail for 15 days. They added that a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has set a briefing schedule for his appeal that won’t end until mid-July, after Navarro completes his sentence.
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