Peter Navarro got some bad news from the DC Appeals court today. All three judges rejected his appeal to say out of prison while his phony contempt of Congress case plays out in the courts.
Which means he’ll have to go to turn himself in for a four-month prison sentence on next Tuesday.
Here’s more from CNN:
A federal appeals court on Thursday denied ex-Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to avoid reporting to a federal prison next week to begin serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction.
The unanimous decision from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals means Navarro will have to report to a federal prison in Miami by March 19.
In the terse, unsigned order from circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins, the court said that Navarro hadn’t sufficiently demonstrated why he should remain free while his appeal of the conviction plays out.
Navarro, the judges said, “has not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or a reduced sentence of imprisonment.”
Navarro had been arguing that a decision by the federal judge who oversaw his case to not let him raise an executive privilege defense at trial was wrong and that the possibility that the appeals court might reverse that decision should keep him out of prison as the court weighs his case.
But the three appellate judges on Thursday rejected all of his arguments, suggesting that the court may ultimately rule against him when it considers his arguments for why his conviction should be overturned.
All three of these justices are Barack Obama appointees. Navarro just can’t catch a break in Biden’s weaponized justice system.