Former Trump administration official Steve Bannon could get out of prison early thanks to a law popular among soft-on-crime Democrats — but the Biden-Harris administration won’t grant his lawyers’ appeal.
Congress passed the First Step Act in 2018 with bipartisan support, and former President Donald Trump signed it into law the same year. The Act, which allows certain offenders to apply for early release from prison, is popular among Democrats for who want to free drug dealers and other violent criminals.
Bannon — who reported to prison on July 1 for a four-month sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress — “has accrued ten days’ worth of First Step Act credits,” his lawyers wrote in a Monday court filing reviewed by The Daily Wire. “Those credits mean that Mr. Bannon could have been released to home confinement two days ago on October 19, 2024,”
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