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In reply to the discussion: Peter Navarro asks Supreme Court to let him avoid reporting to prison next week [View all]onenote
(43,981 posts)For example, there is a perception that Navarro has gone to many courts during the course of his prosecution for contempt of Congress. In fact, however, the case has consisted of a lengthy district court case, handled by one judge, but with a number of pre and post trial motions that effectively dragged it out, but that were not themselves appealed when they were decided. Now that the district court has finished its work, the case moves to the DC Circuit, which has only made one ruling -- it refused to overturn the District Court's refusal to stay the start of Navarro's prison term while his appeal was pending. That certainly signals that his chances of success on his appeal aren't very good, so his best bet is to see if the Supreme Court will keep him out of prison during his appeal. If the Supreme Court doesn't bail him out now, he goes to jail no matter what happens in his appeal and makes his further appeal to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals, inevitably in my opinion, affirms his conviction, somewhat meaningless since he will already have served his sentence. He may be counting on Trump getting elected and giving him a pardon if he can get the Supreme Court to stay his sentence or, even if he ends up serving his sentence, he would look to Trump for a pardon to clear his record.