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Bannon Loses Bid to Claim Lawyer Said He Could Ignore Jan. 6 Subpoena
Steve Bannon outside federal court in Washington, D.C., on March 16.
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A federal judge rejected political strategist Steve Bannon’s plan to argue he was justified in refusing to comply with a subpoena from lawmakers investigating U.S. Capitol riot because he was acting on the advice of his lawyer.
Bannon was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to appear at his deposition in October and failing to produce documents demanded by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2020, insurrection. At trial, he had planned to argue that his refusal was legal under a claim of executive privilege.