{"id":104809,"date":"2024-03-19T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-reports-to-prison-after-scotus-denies-stay-of-sentence\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T18:04:45","slug":"former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-reports-to-prison-after-scotus-denies-stay-of-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-reports-to-prison-after-scotus-denies-stay-of-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison after SCOTUS denies stay of sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-19\/yuiylryflfryly.JPG\" alt><figcaption>POOL\/ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday, one day after the Supreme Court denied a stay of his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro spoke Tuesday morning in a strip mall in West Miami near the prison where he will serve four months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will walk proudly in there to do my time,&#8221; Navarro said. &#8220;I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Navarro remained defiant as called he the case an &#8220;unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on to mention former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon&#8217;s contempt of Congress case and how Bannon was allowed to remain free from prison while he appeals his case.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts, in a short opinion, wrote Monday that he saw &#8220;no reason to disagree&#8221; with lower courts, which also rejected Navarro&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro&#8217;s appeal on the merits remains pending, but he will have to begin serving his sentence in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro was ordered on March 11 to report to prison on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court last week in an attempt to remain out of prison as he works to overturn his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>In testimony during Navarro&#8217;s trial, former Jan. 6 committee staff director David Buckley said the House panel had wanted to question Navarro about efforts to delay Congress&#8217; certification of the 2020 election, a plan Navarro dubbed the &#8220;Green Bay Sweep&#8221; in his book &#8220;In Trump Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Navarro unsuccessfully argued that former President Donald Trump had asserted executive privilege over his testimony and document production.<\/p>\n<p><em>-ABC News&#8217; Devin Dwyer contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POOL\/ABC News (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday, one day after the Supreme Court denied a stay of his sentence. He was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-reports-to-prison-after-scotus-denies-stay-of-sentence\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}