The Supreme Court once more denies Peter Navarro's request for early release.
Last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court for permission to stay out of prison while he challenged his conviction at the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. However, Chief Justice John Roberts turned down his request on March 18, and Navarro had to report to prison the following day.
Trying a tactic that hasn't succeeded in many years, Navarro then sent his request to Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first nominee to the high court. The Supreme Court's rules allow parties whose emergency applications are denied by one justice to resubmit to another.
Gorsuch passed the request onto the entire court, which considered it during a private conference on Friday. The court turned it down on Monday without any explanation.
Navarro's lawyers initially claimed that pausing the ruling of a lower court rejecting his attempt to avoid prison was justified because he wasn't a flight risk and had valid legal concerns. Navarro argued that his appeal would "raise a number of issues on appeal that he contends are likely to result in the reversal of his conviction, or a new trial."
Two other lower courts had previously turned down similar requests.
Roberts dismissed the appeal with a quick opinion last month. The chief justice stated that the federal appeals court decided Navarro had abandoned any challenge to the idea that, even if he deserved executive privilege, he could still be compelled to appear before Congress. And Roberts said he saw "no reason to disagree with the decision that Navarro forfeited those arguments."
Navarro was given a four-month prison sentence after a jury found him guilty of not complying with subpoenas seeking documents and testimony for the House's investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
His main case is currently being heard by the appeals court. [
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Source: edition.cnn.com
