Steve Bannon needs to be in jail for contempt of Congress, however Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Los Angeles) and Home Republican management are attempting to avoid wasting him.
Johnson issued an announcement:
A bipartisan authorized advisory group voted 3-2 to file a quick within the case in opposition to Steve Bannon with the D.C. Circuit Court docket. The amicus temporary shall be filed after Bannon recordsdata his petition for rehearing en banc and won’t help both facet.
It will withdraw sure arguments the Home made earlier within the lawsuit concerning the formation of a particular committee to analyze the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol over the last Congress. Home Republican management nonetheless believes Speaker Pelosi abused her energy in organizing the particular committee.
Johnson and the Home Republican management imagine that the 1/6 Committee was illegally established, in order that they imagine that Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction needs to be dismissed.
The argument that the 1/6 committee was unlawful has been tried in different instances through the years with out ever going wherever, however Johnson is making an attempt once more as a result of Trump would not need to see his former marketing campaign supervisor and White Home adviser locked up.
As an alternative of making an attempt to show to voters that they need to maintain their Home majority, Republicans are doing Trump’s bidding as a result of their majority has been constructed to serve a former president’s district whereas ignoring the American folks.
