司法部再提动议 请求法院撤销班农藐视国会定罪并驳回起诉
美国司法部2026年11月5日向位于华盛顿的哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院提交动议，请求撤销对 Stephen K. Bannon 的定罪判决并驳回起诉书。这份动议没有异议方，班农一方不反对。动议依据《联邦刑事诉讼规则》第48(a)条提出，并备位援引第33条请求先撤销判决。
班农是特朗普总统的前顾问。他拒绝配合众议院调查2021年1月6日国会山事件的特设委员会发出的传票，理由是他认为相关材料受行政特权保护。2022年，他被裁定两项藐视国会罪名成立，并服刑四个月；联邦上诉法院2024年维持了定罪。
司法部在动议中表示，出于检察裁量，撤销此案符合司法利益：行政部门认为，不宜对一位自认受行政特权保护的前总统顾问追究藐视国会责任。司法部还表示，对班农审判的公平性存有重大疑虑，因为当年的判例堵住了他的一项核心抗辩，即他并非故意违法，而是真诚相信自己依法无需配合传票。
这份动议是第二次提交。司法部2026年2月首次提出撤销动议时，班农向最高法院申请调卷令的程序还在进行；最高法院2026年5月8日批准调卷、撤销上诉法院判决并发回重审，哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院2026年8月12日再把案件发回地区法院，要求处理撤销动议。地区法院法官 Carl Nichols 此后以说明不够充分、无损害驳回了首次动议，并要求司法部回应一项2025年判例的影响；11月5日这份21页的新动议就是补足说明后的再次提交。
动议由司法部副助理司法部长帮办 Michael Weisbuch 等人签署。法官尚未就新动议作出裁决。批评者方面，前联邦检察官 Bruce Searby 等人公开质疑司法部接连请求撤销特朗普盟友的定罪、却没有对立一方在法庭上为原判决辩护；司法部未就这一质疑向媒体作出回应。
（来源：美国司法部）
Justice Department Renews Motion to Vacate Bannon's Contempt Conviction and Dismiss the Indictment
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion on November 5, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, asking the court to vacate the judgment of conviction against Stephen K. Bannon and dismiss the indictment. The motion is unopposed; Bannon's side does not object. It is brought under Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and alternatively asks the court to vacate the judgment under Rule 33.
Bannon is a former adviser to President Donald Trump. He refused to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol, saying he believed the materials sought were protected by executive privilege. In 2022 he was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress and served four months in prison; a federal appeals court upheld the conviction in 2024.
In the motion, the department says dismissal is in the interests of justice as an exercise of prosecutorial discretion: the Executive Branch does not believe it is appropriate to pursue contempt of Congress charges against a former presidential adviser who did not comply with a subpoena based on an asserted belief that he was protected by executive privilege. The department also says it harbors significant doubts about the fairness of Bannon's trial, because existing precedent foreclosed a central defense, that he did not willfully violate the law but sincerely believed compliance was not legally required.
The filing is a renewed motion. The department first moved to dismiss in February 2026 while Bannon's petition to the Supreme Court was pending; on May 8, 2026, the Supreme Court granted the petition, vacated the appeals court's judgment and remanded the case, and on August 12, 2026, the D.C. Circuit sent the case back to the district court to address the dismissal motion. Judge Carl Nichols then denied the first motion without prejudice, finding its explanation insufficient, and asked the department to address a 2025 precedent. The new 21-page motion filed on November 5 supplies that fuller explanation.
The motion was signed by Deputy Associate Attorney General Michael Weisbuch and others. The judge has not yet ruled on the renewed motion. Critics, including former federal prosecutor Bruce Searby, have publicly questioned the department's repeated requests to erase convictions of Trump allies with no opposing party left to defend the verdicts in court; the department did not respond to media requests for comment on that criticism.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
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