It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. A DC appeals court has finally affirmed Steve Bannon's criminal conviction and now he's one step closer to serving his prison term.

Here's Glenn with details.

Well, friends, that justice was a long time coming.

One of Donald Trump's criminally convicted close associates, Steve Bannon, just had his conviction affirmed by a DC appeals court, and now Steve Bannon finds himself on the short list for prison.

Let's start with the new reporting and then we'll take a quick look at some of the newly released appeals court decision affirming

Bannon's conviction.

Headline Steve Bannon's bid to undo January 6th contempt conviction fails.

And that article begins,

former Trump advisor Stephen Bannon

was rightfully convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in front of the committee that investigated the January 6th

2021 capital attack, an appellate court ruled Friday.

The court did not immediately order Bannon to begin serving his four-month prison sentence.

Instead, he has seven days to ask for reconsideration in the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the D.C. Circuit.

The unanimous decision was written by Brad Garcia, the newest member of the court.

Bannon, quote, deliberately refused to comply with the Select Committee's subpoena in that he knew what the subpoena required and intentionally did not respond.

And gave no persuasive argument for doing so, Judge Garcia wrote, quote,

Bannon failed to comply with a subpoena and his failure to comply was

willful.

Bannon, now a right-wing podcaster, who continued to spread false claims about the 2020 election,

was sentenced in 2022 to prison for ignoring the congressional subpoena but remains out on bond while

challenging that conviction. He maintains that he was following legal advice in

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