DOJ Files To Undo Navarro’s Contempt Conviction

The Washington Post reports:

The Trump administration is reconsidering the legal basis for White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s conviction for criminal contempt of Congress, according to court filings, a step that could lead to voiding his case. Navarro, 75, served a four-month sentence last year after being found guilty in September 2023 of ignoring subpoenas for records and testimony by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The House sought to hear from Navarro after he published a memoir later that year claiming he worked with former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon on an operation called the “Green Bay Sweep,” a football reference to an end-run play made famous in the 1960s. The plan aimed to get Trump loyalists in Congress to contest ballots from six swing states that Joe Biden won in 2020 and throw the election to the House.

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