Supreme Court won't let former Trump aide Peter Navarro out of jail while he appeals sentence

• The Supreme Court denied a request by former Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro to get out of jail while he appeals his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
• It was the second time in six weeks that the high court shot down Navarro's efforts to pause his jail sentence while he continues to fight a guilty verdict on two counts of contempt of Congress.
• Navarro, 74, surrendered to a federal prison in Miami last month to begin serving his sentence.

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request by Peter Navarro, a former advisor to ex-President Donald Trump, to get out of jail while he appeals his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The order rejecting Navarro's application for release pending appeal stated only that his request was addressed to Justice Neil Gorsuch and referred to the court, which denied it.

It was the second time in six weeks that the high court shot down Navarro's efforts to pause his jail sentence while he continues to fight a guilty verdict on two counts of contempt of Congress.

Navarro, 74, surrendered to a federal prison in Miami on March 19 to begin serving his sentence.

Navarro was indicted after refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee probing the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and temporarily delayed the transfer of power to President Joe Biden.

Navarro claimed that the doctrine of executive privilege shielded him from responding to the subpoena. But much of the information sought by the committee was not covered by executive privilege, and Trump did not assert executive privilege in the first place,