The DC court hearing Bannon's appeal of his conviction for contempt for failure to respond to a subpoena rejected his appeal today, May 10. The decision did not immediately dispatch him back to prison. Strangely, he was given another seven days to submit another motion to the full court of appeals to hear his request. This decision was unanimous but only involved a 3-judge panel, not the entire court of appeals, hence the additional steps still open for him to pursue.

Bannon's pending sentence is only five months but I fear at this point there may be enough avenues for delay either by appealing to the full court or to the Supreme Court that he could stretch this out until the end of the year and count on a Trump win to pardon him by January 20, 2025 to keep his jail time to a minimum or maybe nothing.

This sounds like justice but sure doesn't feel like it.


WTH