{"id":6770,"date":"2026-07-21T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:05:51","slug":"appeals-court-rejects-peter-navarros-push-to-overturn-his-conviction-over-january-6-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6770","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court rejects Peter Navarro\u2019s push to overturn his conviction over January 6 subpoena"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro\u2019s attempt to overturn his contempt of Congress felony conviction.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6768\">Trump downplays Chinese election interference five days after describing breach of historic proportions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The unanimous opinion of three judges on the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals marks the latest failure of Trump advisers to unwind legal fallout over their actions around the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The decision also leans heavily into Navarro\u2019s failures to prove in court that Trump wanted to shield him from congressional testimony.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Navarro was found guilty in 2023 of defying congressional subpoenas related his public claims of plotting to block Congress from certifying Trump\u2019s loss in the 2020 presidential election. The House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot sought both records Navarro had and his testimony, but he refused.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Navarro has already served a federal prison sentence, but he has been trying to argue in court for years that Trump told him he didn\u2019t need to respond to the House\u2019s demands, citing what he said was a formal assertion of executive privilege.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the DC Circuit panel, comprised of Judges Patricia Millett, Nina Pillard and Michelle Childs, determined this was a fig leaf.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cDr. Navarro first asserted executive privilege unilaterally without consulting with or receiving direction from President Trump,\u201d the opinion, authored by Millett, said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The appeals court said Navarro had no documentation showing Trump had told him in a three-minute phone call to defy the committee\u2019s subpoena. Both an attorney and an adviser for Trump who had testified to a grand jury against Navarro also said Trump never formally decided Navarro should be shielded.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cDr. Navarro immediately and categorically asserted executive privilege without consulting anyone \u2026 He did so before even seeing the subpoena and its cover letter that made clear the subpoena sought some information that Dr. Navarro concedes is not privileged because he had discussed it publicly\u201d in his book and in interviews, the court wrote. \u201cThat all cuts against Dr. Navarro\u2019s purported good-faith defense, not in favor of it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6766\">What we know about the late Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s funeral plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The court also highlighted that when Navarro was indicted and tried for his crime, both the executive branch \u2013 during the Biden administration \u2013 and Congress sought accountability. The Trump administration has let the Navarro appeal play out.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAs it turns out, the Political Branches are entirely in accord this time. Congress held Dr. Navarro in contempt,\u201d Millett wrote in the opinion. \u201cAnd the Executive both informed Dr. Navarro that his assertion of executive privilege was unjustified and exercised its exclusive authority to bring this prosecution.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            All three judges on the panel were appointed by Democratic presidents.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Navarro, who now is a White House trade adviser, and Steve Bannon, another longtime Trump confidant, have both been trying to reverse their convictions through the court. Both served time in federal prison in 2024 for defying House subpoenas regarding January 6.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            At the time Congress subpoenaed both to testify and the Justice Department prosecuted them, Bannon and Navarro were private citizens, and Trump was no longer president, between his two terms in office.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Yet even once Trump retook the presidency last year, neither man has received a presidentialpardon, despite the widespread clemency Trump has given to January 6-related defendants and other allies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            With their appeals still ongoing, the Justice Department told courts this year it wanted the charges against Bannon dismissed. It\u2019s still not clear what the next steps will be in Navarro\u2019s case.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A lawyer for Navarro didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6716\">Trump administration seeking to rewrite historic preservation rules to smooth way for pet projects<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro\u2019s attempt to overturn his contempt of Congress felony conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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