Steve Bannon is asking the Supreme Court to overturn his 2022 conviction for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee.

Lawyers for Bannon, the MAGA podcaster and former Trump White House adviser, petitioned the court Friday to toss his conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress. They argue that the subpoena was not lawfully issued because the Jan. 6 committee “did not follow the rules imposed by the House Resolution creating the committee,” and that ignoring the subpoena wasn’t a crime because Bannon “relied in good faith” on his attorney’s opinion that he could do so.

Bannon’s attorney said Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege, even though Bannon had last worked in the White House in August 2017. The three-member District of Columbia Circuit didn’t buy the execut

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