Prosecutors hope the trial will be brief and lead to the first guilty verdict for contempt of Congress.
There will be a news conference in Washington on November 15, 2021.
After a panel is selected, opening arguments will begin.
According to the Washington Post, prosecutors intend to only take a day to present their case, which will focus on Bannon ignoring a September 2021 subpoena requesting he turn over documents and testifying before the January 6 committee.
Since he left his job as a government official, it's questionable if the conversations he had with Donald Trump are protected by executive privilege.
The District Judge who is overseeing the trial refused to delay the proceedings over executive privilege claims.
It's unclear if Bannon will testify, but according to reports, the only viable defense is to argue that he didn't know the deadline.
If he is found guilty of contempt, he could face up to two years in prison.
In 1974 G. Gordon Liddy was found guilty for his role in the Watergate scandal and was sentenced to three years in prison. There hasn't been a trial for contempt of Congress since 1983, when Rita Lavelle, a Reagan-era Environmental Protection Agency official, was acquitted. The majority of contempt of Congress indictments end in plea agreements.
The January 6 committee was informed by the attorney that his client is willing to testify at a public hearing, but the statement came as the trial was being delayed. It is not clear if he still intends to testify.
The committee held him in contempt after he refused to comply with the subpoena. A group of Trump advisers holed up at the D.C. hotel after the 2020 election to plan how to overturn the results. A group of people were working out of the hotel, including a former Trump attorney and a legal scholar. At the January 6 committee's hearing on Tuesday, it was revealed that the two men talked on the phone on January 5. "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow," he said on his radio show.
The House is in contempt of court for refusing to comply with the subpoena.
The committee expects testimony from Steve Bannon.
The contempt of congress trial will begin next week.
Not Guilty To Contempt of Congress, Says Bannon.
The judge says that the man is going to bemedieval.
After talking to Trump, Steve Bannon said "all hell going to break loose".
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