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A federal appeals courtroom on Thursday denied ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to keep away from reporting to a federal prison next week to start serving a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction.
The unanimous choice from the DC Circuit Courtroom of Appeals means Navarro must report back to a federal jail in Miami by March 19.
Within the terse, unsigned order from circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins, the courtroom mentioned that Navarro hadn’t sufficiently demonstrated why he ought to stay free whereas his attraction of the conviction performs out.
Navarro, the judges mentioned, “has not proven that his attraction presents substantial questions of legislation or reality more likely to lead to reversal, a brand new trial, a sentence that doesn’t embrace a time period of imprisonment, or a diminished sentence of imprisonment.”
Navarro had been arguing {that a} choice by the federal decide who oversaw his case to not let him elevate an government privilege protection at trial was flawed and that the chance that the appeals courtroom would possibly reverse that call ought to hold him out of jail because the courtroom weighs his case.
However the three appellate judges on Thursday rejected all of his arguments, suggesting that the courtroom could in the end rule in opposition to him when it considers his arguments for why his conviction ought to be overturned.
Navarro “makes no declare of absolute testimonial immunity, nor may he. A correctly asserted declare of government privilege wouldn’t have relieved him of the duty to provide unprivileged paperwork and seem for his deposition to testify on unprivileged issues,” they wrote.
Navarro was sentenced earlier this year to 4 months in jail after being convicted in September of two contempt of Congress counts for not complying with a subpoena from the Home choose committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol.
CNN has reached out to Navarro for remark.