Peter Navarro, a senior aide to former president Donald Trump, is required to report to a prison in Miami by March 19. asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep him out of prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.to undo his conviction or four-month sentence.
“For the first time in our nation’s history, a senior presidential advisor has been convicted of contempt of congress after asserting executive privilege over a congressional subpoena,” his attorneys, Stan M. Brand and Stanley Woodward, said in court filings Friday, adding that Navarro will raise several issues on appeal “that he contends are likely to result in the reversal of his conviction, or a new trial.”The Supreme Court gave the Justice Department until 2 p.m.
Navarro’s attorneys said in their filing Friday that the law is not clear that Congress intended to punish senior presidential advisers like Navarro, who they said refused to comply with a congressional subpoena based on a belief they were required to assert executive privilege.But Navarro had no documentation to show that Trump ever planned to assert that privilege to keep him from testifying, and Trump has never publicly corroborated his account.
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