Steve Bannon Fought The Law And The Law Won, Q and A
By islander July 22, 2022 4:07 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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"The jury returned a verdict of guilty against Bannon for two counts of Contempt of Congress.
I once informed a client about the Cardinal Rule of Power Struggles: Never get into a power struggle with people who have more power than you do. Steve Bannon could have used that advice. (I have found that teenagers can sometimes benefit from this advice as well.)
After the jury returned its verdict, I answered a few questions on social media. This was my area of practice, so I can speak with some confidence: Most issues on appeal give deference to the trial court’s decision. It’s not enough to make a good argument that the court messed up. You must show that the court abused its discretion. Steve Bannon will lose. Being charged and convicted of contempt is punishment for having failed to comply. It is not an attempt to get him to comply. In other words, it’s punishment, not a means for securing compliance.
Right. But my guess is that Steve Bannon (and Peter Navarro) would be totally useless as witnesses anyway. If they did talk, you’d never believe a word. If they talked to the J6 committee, they’d just try to jerk them around.
Documents are usually not covered by the 5th Amendment, so the DOJ would have options for getting those.
Steve Bannon was never going to talk. People with criminal liability don’t have to. But instead of going in and standing on the Fifth, he thumbed his nose at Congress. See my earlier tweet about the Cardinal Rule of Power Struggles."
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