DOJ asks federal judge to start Steve Bannons prison sentence [Video]

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon should begin serving a four-month prison sentence now that a federal appeals court has upheld his contempt-of-Congress conviction, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday.U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who presided over Bannon’s trial, had paused Bannon’s sentence while an appeal of his conviction played out.Bannon was found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying a subpoena by the House Jan. 6 select committee in their investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.The Justice Department said in its court filing that a person who is found guilty must report for their term of imprisonment unless the defendant can establish that, “the appeal is not for the purpose of delay and raises a substantial question of law or fact likely to result in reversal.”“The D.C. Circuit rejected defendant’s appeal on all grounds, …