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Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon asked an appeals court in Washington, D.C., to let him stay out of prison while he further appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.
Bannon was ordered by a federal judge this month to self-surrender to prison on July 1 to begin serving his four-month sentence, which stems from his 2022 conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress for evading a subpoena to testify before the January 6 House Select Committee investigating the 2021 siege on the U.S. Capitol.
The former Trump official was previously granted a stay on his sentencing by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols while he appealed the verdict. After a three-judge panel at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld Bannon’s conviction last month, however, federal prosecutors argued there was “no legal basis” to continue delaying his four-month sentence. Nichols sided with the federal government in an order on June 6.
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In his emergency appeal order on Tuesday, Bannon’s defense team urged the same D.C. appeals court to delay his sentencing again, “pending conclusion of his appeals, including to the Supreme Court.” Bannon also asked that the court respond to his request by June 18, to “allow sufficient time to seek further relief from the Supreme Court if necessary.”
“There is also no denying the political realities here,” Bannon’s attorneys wrote in the petition, which was obtained by Newsweek. “Mr. Bannon is a high-profile political commentator and campaign strategist. He was prosecuted by an administration whose policies are a frequent target of Mr. Bannon’s public statements.”
“The government seeks to imprison Mr. Bannon for the four-month period leading up to the November election, when millions of Americans look to him for information on important campaign issues,” the filing added, referring to Bannon’s War Room podcast. “This would also effectively bar Mr. Bannon from serving as a meaningful advisor in the ongoing national campaign.”
Newsweek on Wednesday reached out to the Department of Justice via email for comment on Bannon’s emergency petition.
Former President Donald Trump, who late last month made history as the first former U.S. president to be criminally convicted, raged over social media after Bannon was order to self-surrender next month. He also demanded that criminal charges be brought against the lawmakers who formed the January 6 House Select Committee, which at the end of its investigation recommended to the Justice Department that Trump should face criminal charges over his activities surrounding the attack on the Capitol.
“It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, made up of all Democrats, and two CRAZED FORMER REPUBLICAN LUNATICS, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Liz ‘Out of Her Mind’ Cheney,” a post by Trump to Truth Social read in part last week.
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Travelers are facing long waits at airport security checkpoints as the partial government shutdown continues to strain staffing for Transportation Security Administration workers. About 50,000 T.S.A. personnel have been working without pay for over a month, and hundreds have quit or called out of work.
On Monday, President Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to some U.S. airports, saying that they would help ease long security lines. By Monday afternoon, the lines at the Atlanta, LaGuardia and Newark airports had become so long that those airports removed wait time estimates from their websites. Atlanta’s airport advised passengers to allow for at least four hours for security screenings.
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A Chicago man arrested for allegedly gunning down a Loyola University student was in the country illegally and captured in part because of his “distinct” limp, officials said Monday.
Sheridan Gorman, 18, was killed shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday near Tobey Prinz Beach Park, less than a mile from campus, police said.
Jose Medina, 25, was arrested Friday night and booked on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and other gun-related charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Gorman, who was from the New York City suburb of Yorktown Heights.
Medina’s scheduled court appearance on Monday was delayed after the defendant was taken to the hospital, prosecutors said. The nature of Medina’s injury or illness was not immediately disclosed.
The suspect wore black clothes and a black mask when he allegedly shot Gorman in the back in the early morning hours of Thursday, according to a Chicago police arrest report released on Monday.
Witnesses described and nearby security cameras showed the suspect “walking with a distinct limp and slow gait,” according to the report.
Cameras then caught Medina entering his apartment house on N. Sheridan Road, and a building engineer identified the suspect as a resident, the police report said.
Medina had been previously “apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and released into the country,” according to a Department of Homeland Security statement.
The suspect was released again on June 19, 2023, following a shoplifting arrest in Chicago, federal officials said.
Gorman was “failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians,” DHS spokesperson Lauren Bis said in a statement.
The report didn’t make clear what, if any, motive the suspect might have had for the attack.
“We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime,” a statement from Gorman’s family said.
“When systems fail — whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act — the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent,” the family said.
It wasn’t immediately clear on Monday if Medina had hired or been appointed a lawyer to speak on his behalf.
Gorman’s slaying could take center stage in the nation’s ongoing debate on immigration in the same manner as Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s murder in 2024.
The suspect in her slaying, Venezuelan citizen Jose Antonio Ibarra, illegally entered America in 2022 near El Paso, authorities have said.
The Trump administration frequently invokes Riley’s name in its justification of mass deportations and other anti-immigration actions.
Riley’s family has asked that their loved one’s name not be used in this public debate.
“I’d rather her not be such a political, how you say — it started a storm in our country,” father Jason Riley told NBC’s “TODAY” show a month after his daughter’s death, “and it’s incited a lot of people.”
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