Peter Navarro, a consultant to previous president Donald Trump, speaks with journalism as he is surrounded by demonstrators after being condemned of contempt of Congress in September. Navarro submitted a desperate attract the Supreme Court on Friday to postpone his jail sentence after a panel of judges rejected his demand Thursday. Submit Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI|License Photo
March 15 (UPI)– Former Trump administration consultant Peter Navarro submitted a desperate attract the Supreme Court Friday, simply days before his scheduled jail sentence.
Navarro is expected to report to federal jail in Miami Tuesday to start serving a four-month sentence for defying a House Jan. 6 choose committee subpoena.
In the emergency situation application to the Supreme Court gotten by ABC News, lawyer Stanley Woodward argued Navarro “is indisputably neither a flight danger nor a threat to public security ought to he be launched pending appeal.”
“For the very first time in our country's history, a senior governmental advisor has actually been founded guilty of contempt of Congress after asserting executive advantage over a congressional subpoena,” Woodward's filing stated. “Dr. Navarro has actually appealed and will raise a variety of problems on appeal that he competes are most likely to lead to the turnaround of his conviction, or a brand-new trial.”
Navarro was founded guilty in September on 2 counts of contempt of Congress for declining to offer testament and files to the committee that examined the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
He had actually asked 2 lower courts to permit him to stay totally free while he appeals his conviction, however U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta– who commanded Navarro's trial– and a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday declined his demand.
He has actually unsuccessfully argued that Donald Trump asserted executive advantage making him exempt from the committee's subpoena, however Mehta and the appeals court stated they discovered “no proof” Trump did so.
His attract reverse the conviction is pending.
