{"id":1549322,"date":"2022-07-11T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549322"},"modified":"2022-07-11T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:49:49","slug":"judge-denied-steve-bannons-request-to-delay-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-denied-steve-bannons-request-to-delay-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Denied Steve Bannon\u2019s Request to Delay Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-denied-steve-bannons-request-to-delay-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal judge on July 11 declined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/steve-bannon-asks-judge-to-delay-contempt-of-congress-trial-citing-jan-6-hearing-publicity_4568455.html\">Steve Bannon\u2019s request<\/a> to delay his contempt of Congress trial, dismissing the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-trump\">Trump<\/a> adviser\u2019s reasoning that publicity around the closely-watched trial would make it difficult for a jury to be impartial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see no reason for extending this case any longer,\u201d said U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, after an hours-long hearing in federal court. He would reconsider granting a delay only if it proves impossible to select an unbiased jury, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump-appointed judge at the hearing dealt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bannon\">bannon<\/a> a series of setbacks as the latter prepares to face the July 18 trial, for criminal contempt charges for defying a House Jan. 6 Committee subpoena last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon was barred by Nichols from asserting multiple defenses, including his request to raise executive privilege and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/steve-bannon-subpoenas-pelosi-jan-6-panel-members-in-contempt-of-congress-case_4520148.html\">subpoena House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) and several other members of the Jan. 6 panel.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon\u2019s lawyers would also not be able to argue that the House committee violated rules in summoning Bannon to the stand. Instead, the Bannon team\u2019s defenses are limited mainly to whether Bannon understood or was able to meet the deadlines for the House committee demands.<\/p>\n<p>Nichols\u2019 rulings left one of Bannon\u2019s attorneys to question whether the 68-year-old could defend himself at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the point of going to trial here if there are no defenses?\u201d David Schoen, a lawyer representing Bannon, asked in frustration as he sought clarification from Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>To which Nichols answered: \u201cAgreed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon didn\u2019t appear at the court hearing. Speaking to reporters later outside the courthouse, Schoen indicated that they would appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the judge,\u201d he said of Nichols. \u201cThat\u2019s why they have a court of appeals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Eleventh Hour Efforts\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Nichols\u2019 ruling came one day after Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/steve-bannon-tells-jan-6-committee-he-wants-to-testify-in-public_4588861.html\">agreed to testify<\/a> in public before the Jan. 6 Committee after receiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge on July 11 declined Steve Bannon\u2019s request to delay his contempt of Congress trial, dismissing the former Trump adviser\u2019s reasoning that publicity around the closely-watched trial would make it difficult for a jury to be impartial. \u201cI see no reason for extending this case any longer,\u201d said U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}