The Supreme Court rejected former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro’s request to avoid prison time for refusing to comply with a Jan. 6, 2022, committee subpoena.
“Departing from practice in the most serious or high-profile litigation, [Chief Justice John] “Roberts decided Navarro’s motion himself without forwarding it to the full court.” written down Politically. “The chief justice noted that a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Navarro had failed to raise several objections to the fairness of his conviction when he initially sought to remain free pending appeal.”
In his one-page order, Roberts appeared to leave the door open for Navarro to challenge the original convictions, writing: “I see no reason to disagree with the finding that Navarro has forfeited these arguments in the release process, which is separate from his pending trial. “Appeal the matter.”
As AFP reported, Navarro, 74, was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena:
Navarro, 74, a Harvard-educated economist, was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress by a federal jury in Washington in September after a two-day trial.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced him to four months in prison – two months less than prosecutors sought – and ordered him to pay a $9,500 fine.
At the time of Navarro’s sentencing, Judge Mehta reportedly said: “You are not a victim. They are not the subject of political prosecution. These are circumstances of your own making.”
Peter Navarro, Director of the White House National Trade Council, is interviewed by Fox Business Network outside the White House in Washington, DC on October 8, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Jan. 6 committee asked Navarro to appear in 2022, and he immediately declined, citing the former president’s “executive privilege.” Navarro will be the first member of the former president’s advisers to serve a prison sentence and is the second adviser to be convicted of contempt of Congress, following Steve Bannon, who was allowed to remain free while he appealed his convictions. Navarro’s judge, Mehta, ruled that he would not be able to stay out of prison during the appeal.
In a statement to Breitbart News, Navarro said serving prison time while appealing the convictions would violate the constitutional separation of powers.
“Judge Roberts was careful to ensure that his reason for recusal was “other than.” [my] Appeal on the matter is pending.’ This appeal on the merits will continue, and if I fail in this appeal – having nevertheless served my full sentence – the constitutional separation of powers will be irreparably damaged and the doctrine of executive privilege, which dates back to George Washington, will lose its important function of protecting one effective presidential decision making. There is a lot at stake here and the fight is worth it,” he said.
“The partisan nature of the detention of a senior White House adviser should give every American chills,” he continued. “In Joe Biden’s armed justice system, a Democrat-controlled Congress and Justice Department, along with an Obama-appointed district judge and three Obama-appointed appeals court judges, drove the Navarro railroad straight to prison.”
“If anyone thinks that these partisans and politicians in robes aren’t after Donald Trump, they need to think twice now,” he concluded.
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