Steve Bannon’s Supreme Court Fail Mocked: Don’t ‘Make Plans for July 4th’

Steve Bannon’s latest effort to delay his contempt convention sentencing was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.

The long-time ally of former President Donald Trump was ordered to self-surrender to prison on July 1 to serve a four-month sentence after he was found guilty in July 2022 on two counts of contempt for defying a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigation the January 6, 2021, Capitol attacks.

Bannon’s sentencing was delayed pending the ruling of a federal appeals court, although the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld his conviction in May, and the judge overseeing the case ruled that Bannon must begin serving his sentence next month.

His last chance of appealing the looming prison date was to file an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which requested that his sentencing be stayed while he files additional appeals. The justices rejected the request without explanation on Friday. There were no noted dissents in the court’s opinion as well.

News of the Supreme Court’s rejection sparked mockery for Bannon online. Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, wrote in a post to X that the high court had “unanimously told Scabrous Phlemsack Steve Bannon not to make plans for July 4th.”

“Looking forward to the perp walk into prison,” said Pulitzer-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, who reacted to a report of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

“Need some cheering up? Steve Bannon went whining to the Supreme Court to please please pretty please keep him from having to go to prison and the Supreme Court just told Steve Bannon to f*** straight off,” wrote internet personality Jeff Tiedrich, who frequently criticizes Trump.

Bannon’s attorneys had argued in court that the defendant was acting “in good faith” on advice he had received from his attorney, who told Bannon he did not need to respond to the House Committee’s subpoena because the information that they sought was protected by executive privilege. Prosecutors rebutted, however, that Bannon had multiple opportunities to comply with the subpoena.

Bannon served as the White House’s chief strategist for the first seven months of Trump’s presidency. He has since become a well-known conservative political commentator and the host of the radio show and podcast, Steve Bannon’s War Room.

The former president has spoken out against Bannon’s prison sentence, including writing in a post to his Truth Social account earlier this month that it was “a Total and Complete American Tragedy” that his former aide was convicted.

“The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before,” read Trump’s post in part.

Newsweek sent an email to Bannon’s War Room show seeking comment Friday afternoon.