{"id":70975,"date":"2026-04-06T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/steve-bannon-appears-likely-to-have-criminal-conviction-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:55:28","slug":"steve-bannon-appears-likely-to-have-criminal-conviction-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/steve-bannon-appears-likely-to-have-criminal-conviction-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannon appears likely to have criminal conviction dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US supreme court files brief order vacating lower court ruling that had upheld rightwing media host\u2019s conviction <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/steve-bannon\">Steve Bannon<\/a>, the rightwing media host and ally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, appears likely to have his criminal conviction dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The US supreme court filed a brief order on Monday that vacated a lower court ruling that had upheld Bannon\u2019s conviction and sent the case back to the US court of appeals for the DC circuit for \u201cfurther consideration in light of the pending motion to dismiss the indictment\u201d. The Trump administration had moved to dismiss Bannon\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/steven-bannon-criminal-court-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US supreme court files brief order vacating lower court ruling that had upheld rightwing media host\u2019s conviction Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Steve Bannon, the rightwing media host and ally of Donald Trump, appears likely to have his criminal conviction dismissed. The US supreme court &#8230; <a title=\"Steve Bannon appears likely to have criminal conviction dismissed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/steve-bannon-appears-likely-to-have-criminal-conviction-dismissed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Steve Bannon appears likely to have criminal conviction dismissed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}