Navarro files appeal to force justice department to vindicate him from subpoena conviction
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZW8E)
Request is fraught as department would have to confront appearance it dropped case in order to shield Navarro after he was tapped as Trump's senior adviser
Intent on vindication after spending four months in prison last year, the White House adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal appeals court on Sunday night to force the justice department to explain why it would not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.
The 13-page request, if granted by the US court of appeals for the DC circuit, would in effect require the justice department to detail publicly when - if ever - it would charge a presidential adviser who defied a congressional subpoena claiming executive privilege protections.
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