WTAF!?

[nonilex@masto.ai]

WTAF!?

#SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.

“Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e

[chrisholladay@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex
Nuke em amd start over in DC is my feeling.
None of this would have been acceptable a generation ago.

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].

The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.

#SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower

[peasluvnjustice@mastodon.social]

@ChrisHolladay it's not acceptable now

[chrisholladay@mastodon.social]

@PeasLuvnJustice
Not to us no, I was referring to the GOP and their ilk

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@Nonilex so how much is bannon going to sue for this now

[albertborneo@framapiaf.org]

@Nonilex
#Epstein
Pam Bondi ne devrait plus rien avoir à craindre d'un refus de témoigner. devant la commission sur les #EpsteinFiles

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The #DOJ brought the case against Bannon during Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency, but it changed course after #Trump took office again last year.

#SteveBannon had initially argued that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of #ExecutivePrivilege. But the #House panel & the DOJ contended such a claim was dubious because Trump had fired Bannon…in 2017 & he was thus a private citizen when consulting with Trump in the run-up to the #Jan6 #insurrection.

#SCOTUS #law #Congress #oversight

[tomminieminen@mastodontti.fi]

@Nonilex Looking at the ongoing process from the other side of the pond, it still looks like Americans are sitting quietly still and hoping that the judges will ultimately save their democracy — all the while a) judges side more and more often with the government for one reason or another, and b) TrumPutin’s government don't give a damn about city orders in any case.

[peasluvnjustice@mastodon.social]

@ChrisHolladay Oh, I got that. Just reaffirming that it's wrong. Remember when repuglicans actually had some form of morals? Seems like we imagined it. I would never trust any of them ever again.