Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro lost a second bid to try and get the Supreme Court to release him from prison on Monday.
Navarro is currently in prison serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction regarding the House Jan. 6th committee and his refusal to come before the committee.
The court rejected Navarro’s request to be released while his appeal makes its way through the court with a terse one-line ruling that read, “The application for release pending appeal addressed to Justice Gorsuch and referred to the Court is denied.”
CNN noted that Navarro made a similar attempt last month. “In an emergency request last month, Navarro asked the Supreme Court to let him remain free while he challenged his conviction at the federal appeals court in Washington, DC. Chief Justice John Roberts denied that request on March 18, and Navarro reported to prison the following day,” reported CNN Monday.
Navarro was a leading figure in the final days of the Trump administration working to overturn the 2020 presidential election, efforts he detailed publicly while being interviewed by MSNBC’s Ari Melber in January of 2022.
The House Jan. 6th Committee “sought to interview Navarro about a plan devised by him and other Trump allies, dubbed the “Green Bay Sweep,” to delay Congress from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The committee concluded its work last year without interviewing Navarro,” reported Reuters at the time.
Melber pushed Navarro on how he planned to overturn the 2020 election in January of 2022. Navarro replied, “The plan was simply this: We had over 100 congressmen and senators on Capitol Hill ready to implement the sweep. The sweep was simply that. We were gonna challenge the results of the election in the six battleground states. They were Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada.”
Navarro went on to detail his full plan as to how the Congress would eventually count the Electoral College votes so that Trump would stay in office to which Melber replied, “Do you realize you are describing a coup?”
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