In a brief unsigned decision on Monday, the Supreme Court granted this request, overturning the appellate decision affirming the conviction of 72-year-old Steve Bannon and sending the case back to the trial judge.
The predominantly conservative American Supreme Court paved the way on Monday for the retroactive annulment of the conviction of former advisor to Donald Trump, right-wing populist ideologue Steve Bannon.
This is essentially a symbolic decision since Steve Bannon had already served his four-month prison sentence in 2024 for obstructing Congress’ investigation into the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Steve Bannon, a figure of the American far-right, petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn his conviction, a recourse that the Trump administration joined in February on behalf of “the interest of justice.” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, former personal lawyer of Donald Trump who became interim minister last week, justified this move by the need to “remedy the politicization of the judicial system under the previous administration” of Democrat Joe Biden.
In the final months of Donald Trump’s victorious 2016 campaign, Steve Bannon began to make his mark, denouncing a world order controlled by political and financial elites.
He followed Trump to the White House in 2017 but was forced to leave the executive branch in August of the same year after the Charlottesville violence in Virginia, where a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove a car into a group of counter-protesters, resulting in the death of a young woman.
