Washington’s federal appeals court on May 27 turned down a request from former White House official Steve Bannon, in a split decision that could end up at the Supreme Court.
A majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Bannon’s petition for a rehearing en banc.
Bannon was trying to get the full court to consider his appeal of a contempt of Congress conviction after a D.C. Circuit panel in 2024 rejected his appeal.
Bannon was convicted in 2022 after, acting on advice from his legal counsel, he declined to comply with subpoenas from a U.S. House of Representatives panel….