Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, is set to begin his four-month jail sentence for contempt of Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court declined his request to delay the sentence. The rejection came in a succinct, one-sentence order, without any noted dissent from the justices.
Bannon, who was found guilty by a jury two years ago, had sought to avoid imprisonment while his case undergoes review by the country’s highest court. His earlier attempts to overturn the conviction at the appellate level also failed to yield a favorable result. Consequently, Bannon is scheduled to start his prison term on Monday, despite his legal team’s efforts to defer it until further evaluation of the case by the Supreme Court.
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