{"id":4333,"date":"2022-07-12T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:09:55","slug":"railroaded-judge-shreds-bannon-defenses-ahead-of-contempt-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"RAILROADED: Judge shreds Bannon defenses ahead of contempt trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 12, 2022 at 06:40AM. Judge shreds Bannon defenses ahead of contempt trial<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also denied Steve Bannon\u2019s bid to postpone for three months the jury trial set to open next Monday, rejecting defense arguments that such a delay was warranted due to intense media coverage around the ongoing House hearings on the Capitol siege. | Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A federal judge on Monday eviscerated nearly all of Steve Bannon\u2019s defenses against a charge that he criminally defied a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee, leaving the longtime Donald Trump ally with few options to fight the contempt of Congress case against him.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also denied Bannon\u2019s bid to postpone for three months the jury trial set to open next Monday, rejecting defense arguments that such a delay was warranted due to intense media coverage around the ongoing House hearings on the Capitol siege. Bannon\u2019s attorneys contended Trump\u2019s sudden move to abandon executive privilege claims for Bannon should also spark a delay, but the judge rejected that as well.<\/p>\n

The Trump-appointed judge said thorough questioning of potential jurors could almost certainly resolve potential prejudice. And if it couldn\u2019t, Nichols added, he would revisit the issue after jury selection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via POLITICO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 12, 2022 at 06:40AM. Judge shreds Bannon defenses ahead of contempt trial U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also denied Steve Bannon\u2019s bid to postpone for three months the jury trial set to open next Monday, rejecting defense arguments that such a delay was warranted due to intense media coverage around the ongoing House hearings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,224],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-jan-6","tag-sbn"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=1252%2C826&ssl=1",1252,826,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=300%2C198&ssl=1",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=768%2C507&ssl=1",768,507,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=1024%2C676&ssl=1",1024,676,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=1252%2C826&ssl=1",1252,826,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=1252%2C826&ssl=1",1252,826,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"Featured Stories<\/a> Jan 6th<\/a>","tag_info":"Jan 6th","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-7.06.34-AM.png?fit=1252%2C826&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-17T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}