![]() ![]() ![]() Probably not, since none of the January 6 riot defendants have had success with such a motion - but at least he’d have preserved the issue for appeal. And perhaps if Bannon’s lawyers had requested a change of venue based on the political composition of the jury pool, he’d have gotten his trial moved. ![]() Indeed, voters in the District of Columbia do detest the former president. “And all you had to do was say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this man Bannon worked for Trump.’ That’s the end of the case.” “Well, not only that, but probably 97 percent Trump haters,” Dershowitz agreed. Van Susteren, herself a former lawyer, professed her profound respect for juries, but then tut-tutted that “this is a community of 94 percent Democrat. “The conviction was a foregone conclusion,” he groused, going on to invent out of whole cloth an obligation for a court to order a witness to testify before he can be charged with defying a congressional subpoena. ![]() “They wouldn’t allow him to put on evidence that he believed that there was an executive privilege involved and he wanted a judicial determination before he violated an executive privilege,” Dershowitz went on, conveniently omitting the fact that there is binding Circuit precedent that mistake of law is no defense to a contempt of Congress charge. Which is a rather odd thing to say about a verdict rendered by a jury of Bannon’s peers in the city he calls home. “Entirely predictable and entirely in violation of the Constitution,” Dershowitz railed, adding that “The judge denied him a jury trial.” ![]()
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