A federal appeals court has denied former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to stay out of prison, according to Politico.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Navarro had “not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or a reduced sentence of imprisonment that is less than the amount of time already served plus the expected duration of the appeal process.”
Navarro, 74, was convicted last year on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents and testimony to congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Navarro has been ordered to report to federal prison in Miami on March 19 by 2 p.m.
This would make him the first key Trump official to serve jail time over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Navarro’s lawyers have indicated they will take the case to the Supreme Court.
