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Donald Trump's former adviser Peter Navarro filed a request Tuesday that the high court is unlikely to grant, asking the Supreme Court to reconsider his request to avoid prison.
In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to keep him free while he challenges his contempt of Congress conviction in the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Chief Justice John Roberts denied the request on March 18, and Mr. Navarro turned himself in to prison the next day.
He served 15 days of a four-month sentence.
Supreme Court rules allow a party whose emergency application is denied by one judge to resubmit the application to another judge. In a short letter Tuesday, Mr. Navarro's lawyers asked Judge Neil Gorsuch, Mr. Trump's first nominee to the court, to consider Mr. Navarro's request.
Such requests are rarely granted.
Navarro's lawyers say it is justified to suspend a lower court's ruling rejecting a bid to avoid prison if the applicant is not a flight risk and poses serious legal problems. was making a point. Navarro said his case “raises a number of issues on appellate court and argues that it is likely that the conviction will be overturned or a new trial ordered.”
Two lower courts rejected similar appeals.
Roberts rejected the request in a brief opinion last month. The chief justice said the federal appeals court had concluded that Mr. Navarro had waived any challenge to the idea that he could avoid appearing before Congress even if he was entitled to executive privilege.
“There is no basis for disagreeing with the finding that Mr. Navarro waived these claims,” Roberts said.
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison after a jury found him guilty of failing to respond to Congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony in the House investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. I received it.
