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作者：梅利莎·奎因
梅利莎·奎因是CBSNews.com高级记者，负责报道美国政治，重点关注最高法院和联邦法院。
华盛顿—— 最高法院周一撤销了下级法院维持前特朗普总统白宫顾问史蒂夫·班农两项国会藐视法庭罪名成立的判决，为驳回该案铺平了道路。
除了推翻维持班农定罪的裁决外，最高法院还将他的案件发回华盛顿特区联邦上诉法院进行进一步审理。最高法院以简短命令处理了班农的上诉，未记录任何异议。
司法部已要求地区法院驳回班农的刑事案件，最高法院的裁决为政府推进该驳回请求扫清了道路。
2024年，在最高法院驳回了班农在上诉期间免于入狱的请求后，班农被判处四个月监禁。
班农定罪事件可追溯至2021年，即特朗普第一任期结束后。当时众议院1月6日委员会发出传票，要求提供与班农就推翻2020年选举结果相关的与特朗普的沟通文件和证词。
班农拒绝配合传票，辩称总统的一名律师曾表示特朗普已对议员要求的相关材料援引行政特权，这使得班农无法交出材料。
班农在特朗普第一任期的最初几个月担任其首席战略师，但于2017年被解雇，在2020年大选时他已是普通公民。
在班农拒绝传票后，众议院投票认定其藐视国会，随后他因两项刑事藐视国会罪名被起诉。班农辩称自己无罪。
在2022年的审判中，班农改变了在公开听证会上向众议院调查人员作证的意愿，并声称特朗普已放弃行政特权。但陪审团仍认定两项罪名成立，他被判处四个月监禁。
班农提起上诉，2024年5月，华盛顿特区美国上诉法院的三名法官组成的小组维持了对他的刑事定罪。
在提交给最高法院的文件中，这位保守派播客主持人的律师称对他的起诉是“考虑不周”且“不公正的”。
代表政府在最高法院出庭的副检察长D.约翰·佐尔在另一份提交给大法官的文件中表示，驳回班农的刑事案件符合“司法利益”。
Supreme Court clears path for dismissal of Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction
April 6, 2026 / 9:51 AM EDT / CBS News
By Melissa Quinn
Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a lower court decision that upheld the conviction of Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Trump, on two counts of contempt of Congress, paving the way for the case to be dismissed.
In addition to wiping away the ruling that left Bannon’s conviction in place, the Supreme Court sent his case back to the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., for further proceedings. The court addressed Bannon’s appeal in a brief order with no noted dissents.
The Justice Department has asked the district court to dismiss Bannon’s criminal case, and the Supreme Court’s order clears the way for the government to pursue that dismissal.
Bannon served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 after the Supreme Court denied his bid to remain out of prison while he pursued his appeal of his conviction.
The saga over Bannon’s conviction dates back to 2021, after Mr. Trump’s first term, when the House Jan. 6 committee issued a subpoena seeking documents and testimony related to Bannon’s communications with Mr. Trump about efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election.
Bannon declined to comply with the demand, arguing that a lawyer for the president had indicated that Mr. Trump had invoked executive privilege over the material sought by lawmakers, which prevented Bannon from turning it over.
Bannon served as Mr. Trump’s chief strategist in the first months of his first term, but was fired in 2017 and was a private citizen at the time of the 2020 election.
The House voted to find Bannon in contempt of Congress after he rebuffed the subpoena, and he was then indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon pleaded not guilty.
During his 2022 trial, Bannon reversed course about his willingness to testify before House investigators in a public hearing and claimed that Mr. Trump waived executive privilege. But he was still convicted on both counts by a jury and sentenced to four months in prison.
Bannon appealed, and in May 2024, a panel of three judges on the U.S. appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld his criminal conviction.
In filings with the Supreme Court, lawyers for the conservative podcast host called his prosecution “ill-conceived” and “unjust.”
Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who represents the government before the high court, separately said in a filing with the justices that dismissal of Bannon’s criminal case was in the “interests of justice.”
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