Jury Selected as Steve Bannon’s Contempt of Congress Trial Begins

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WASHINGTON—Jurors were selected for the contempt of Congress trial for former White House aide Steve Bannon on July 19.

Twelve jurors and two alternates were selected.

Bannon was charged after refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House of Representatives select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

A onetime aide to former President Donald Trump, Bannon was charged in late 2021 by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress.

If convicted, Bannon faces up to 60 days in jail.

Jurors

Whittling down the jury pool to 14 took a day and a half, after U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, denied Bannon’s requests to delay the trial.

A jobs training program crew leader, a parks and recreation worker, and a driver for special needs children are among those on the jury.

The jury also includes a senior program associate with the International Republican Institute, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration photographer, an appliance company worker, and a contractor for Test Yourself DC.

Each side gets strikes, or the ability to remove prospective jurors from the pool, during the process.

Prospects struck by prosecutors included a woman who said she needed to care for her grandmother in New Jersey and a former paralegal.

Bannon’s lawyers struck a wallpaper salesman who said he’d never heard of Bannon or the Jan. 6 Capitol breach despite working blocks away from the building, and an assistant to an arts festival director.

Jurors were told the case may go into next week.

Contempt of Congress

Charges of contempt of Congress are unusual, and taking the charges to trial are rare—the last criminal contempt case took place in 1983, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Bannon has maintained that his lack of cooperation stemmed from executive privilege, which provides some shielding for former presidents and their aides. Trump invoked executive privilege after Bannon received a subpoena but told Bannon in a recent letter that if an agreement was reached, he would waive the privilege to let him “testify truthfully and fairly.”

Bannon is among those targeted by the House panel who have offered to testify during televised hearings.

By John Haughey and Zachary Stieber

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