DOJ seeks to dismiss Bannon conviction

• Bannon was convicted and sentenced in 2022 for defying a subpoena from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
• He cited executive privilege for failure to turn over documents or sit for a deposition, but Bannon had been a private citizen since leaving the White House in 2017. He served a four-month federal prison sentence in 2024.

Driving the news: Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C. in a Monday filing asked a federal judge to dismiss Bannon's two-count indictment.

• Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the Supreme Court in a separate filing to send Bannon's appeal back to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who oversaw the case, to dismiss the charges.
• "The government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice," Sauer wrote.

What they're saying: "Under the leadership of Attorney General Bondi, this Department will continue to undo the prior administration's weaponization of the justice system," Attorney General Todd Blance said Monday on X.

• Bannon did not immediately respond to Axios' Monday evening request for comment.

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