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BumRushDaShow

(142,277 posts) Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:22 PM Oct 21

Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week, Bureau of Prisons says, despite his attempts for earlier exit

Source: CNN Politics

Published 4:44 PM EDT, Mon October 21, 2024

CNN — Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former Donald Trump aide, is set to get out of federal prison next Tuesday despite repeated attempts he and his legal defense team have made for him to be released early.

The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that his release date will remain October 29, as originally set. That means he will serve his full 120-day sentence for contempt of Congress behind bars.

Since learning in recent days he may be eligible to move to home confinement, Bannon has accused the BOP of political interference, and his attorneys have been advocating both in court and to prison officials for leniency.

The acting warden of the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, wrote to Bannon’s lawyers on Monday that there wasn’t enough time to arrange for Bannon to move to home confinement in Washington, DC. Home confinement was a possibility for the former top White House adviser because of a provision for some first-time federal offenders under the Trump-era First Step Act.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/steve-bannon-early-release-bureau-of-prisons/index.html

He's going to be like a wild animal once he gets cut loose. He still has a (state) trial in NY scheduled for December.

Steve Bannon to go on trial in December for alleged fraud in We Build the Wall fundraiser

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Steve Bannon to be released from prison next week, Bureau of Prisons says, despite his attempts for earlier exit (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 21 OP

Super durablend Oct 21 #1

Yeah. progressoid Oct 21 #6

Gotta give Garland credit gab13by13 Oct 21 #2

"Yeah it took criminal referrals from the J6 committee, just saying." BumRushDaShow Oct 21 #3

There should be a recividist law about Prez pardons ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 21 #7

I like that. nt Frank D. Lincoln Oct 22 #9

Would be nice except BumRushDaShow Oct 22 #11

Time to hose down that cell GenThePerservering Oct 21 #4

... BumRushDaShow Oct 21 #5

Fascists! We don't need no stinking fascists. nt Frank D. Lincoln Oct 22 #8

That's why they are letting him out. They can't take the smell anymore. Ray Bruns Oct 22 #12

Just in time BaronChocula Oct 22 #10

What a baby Prairie Gates Oct 22 #13

It's possible he'll bolt for the nearest liquor store... Harker Oct 22 #14

Just in time to terrorize the kids on Halloween. He'll go as himself. Very scary. Solly Mack Oct 22 #15

Now the rest of them including the leader. republianmushroom Oct 22 #16

durablend

(7,982 posts)

1. Super

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:25 PM

Oct 21

The October Surprise nobody wants

progressoid

(50,747 posts)

6. Yeah.

Reply to durablend (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 08:32 PM

Oct 21

Hopefully, he's just full of hot air and doesn't have plans for Donald.

gab13by13

(25,232 posts)

2. Gotta give Garland credit

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:47 PM

Oct 21

He prosecuted 2 people from TSF’s inner circle, Brannon and Navarro.
Yeah it took criminal referrals from the J6 committee, just saying.

BumRushDaShow

(142,277 posts)

3. "Yeah it took criminal referrals from the J6 committee, just saying."

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:56 PM

Oct 21

Bannon was FEDERALLY CHARGED by DOJ for the "We Build the Wall" scam and was PARDONED by 45.

Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign

Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office

Thanks to NY state getting rid of their "double jeopardy" law, Bannon is about to face the SAME charges, except for violation of STATE law, in 2 months.

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)

7. There should be a recividist law about Prez pardons

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 10:27 PM

Oct 21

If you get convicted of a subsequent crime after being pardoned, you have to complete the term for which you were pardoned before the terms for the next can begin.

That would keep them clean.

Call it Bannon's Law

Frank D. Lincoln

(606 posts)

9. I like that. nt

Reply to ArkansasDemocrat1 (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 12:22 AM

Oct 22

BumRushDaShow

(142,277 posts)

11. Would be nice except

Reply to ArkansasDemocrat1 (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 22, 2024, 03:56 AM

Oct 22

Article II

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Section 2.

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

(snip)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii

Would most likely need a Constitutional Amendment to change that.