Steve Bannon, a former top aide to ex-President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt of Congress in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe.
A federal judge ordered former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction.
The order by Judge Carl Nichols came three weeks after federal prosecutors urged him to lift a stay on Bannon’s sentence pending an appeal of his conviction.
He was found in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    I agree with the spirit of your statement, but you need to find a new harmless thing to use as the example of going to jail. That USED TO BE the gold standard for that comment, but now it’s subject to location. And at this point, I think it’s something like 26 states + DC are fully legal. So over half the country that comment doesn’t work for.

    But, I still agree with the overall spirit of your comment.

    • Kalkaline
      7·
      6 months ago

      I’m from Texas, so I kind of forget that the rest of the country is freer than us.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Oh. Yeah. You need to leave Texas. It’s legal here in Ohio. Texas is just…I won’t say the “worst”, because Florida also exists, but…yeah. You need to leave. And this is coming from someone living in Ohio.