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Steve Bannon, ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump, issued subpoenas to every member of the Jan. 6 committee and Democratic House leadership ahead of his court case for refusing to cooperate with the panel.
Bannon’s legal team issued subpoenas to the nine members of the Jan. 6 committee, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (SC), three members of the committee’s staff, and House general counsel Douglas Letter, according to legal documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. Bannon is pleading not guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress after he refused to give testimony about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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“The subpoenas seek the production of documents by July 14 and the witnesses’ trial testimony for Mr. Bannon’s trial beginning July 18th,” Bannon’s attorney, David Schoen, told the Washington Examiner. “I would hope they will all come with their documents and testify.”
The subpoena recipients are asked to appear in Washington, D.C., district court on July 18.
Bannon’s legal team is looking to frame the committee’s inquest as politically motivated and show that several committee members have conflicts of interest. Schoen said that Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) named himself as a victim in a lawsuit against Trump related to the events of Jan. 6, and Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) have forthcoming books and “have a personal interest in the committee’s conclusions matching what is in their books,” Schoen said.
Schoen also blasted prime-time hearings beginning Thursday in which the Jan. 6 committee will make its case to the public.
“The upcoming prime-time hearings are just a campaign tool, a dog and pony show produced by a professional media company designed to skew the picture for partisan political campaign purposes,” he said. “That is indefensible.”
Compelling sitting members of Congress to comply with subpoenas from courts is difficult due to the speech and debate clause of the Constitution. The clause stipulates that members “shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”
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The House voted to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress in November, and his trial begins on July 18. Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadow sued the committee and Pelosi in December, and top trade adviser Peter Navarro filed a lawsuit against the same group last week. The Department of Justice declined to press charges against Meadows and another Trump aide Dan Scavino.
The Jan. 6 committee did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
