Peter Navarro wants the Supreme Court to hand him a Get Out Of Jail Free card, court records show.
Navarro, former President Donald Trump's onetime trade adviser, filed Friday an emergency application to stay his four-month sentence on misdemeanor criminal contempt of Congress charges he hopes to appeal.
A similar request to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals was slapped down Thursday, prompting Navarro's last ditch efforts before the nation's highest court.
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"Navarro is the only former senior presidential advisor to be prosecuted for contempt of congress following an assertion of executive privilege by the president that advisor served," the filing notes. "Dr. Navarro has appealed and will raise a number of issues on appeal that he contends are likely to result in the reversal of his conviction, or a new trial."
The 36-page document arrives just four days before Navarro has been ordered to report to a federal prison in Miami.
Should he fail in this final plea, Navarro, 74, will become Tuesday the first of Trump's senior aides to serve time over his role in challenging the 2020 presidential election, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Navarro was sentenced in January for brushing off a subpoena from the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attacks on Jan. 6, 2021.
At trial, Navarro argued Trump had ordered him not to testify and to invoke executive privilege, the Times notes.
The three-judge panel that issued its ruling Thursday disagreed, arguing Navarro had not proved he could present a substantial appeal to the charges against him.
"Even if executive privilege were available to appellant, it would not excuse his complete noncompliance with the subpoena," the judges wrote.
"[Navarro]" has not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or a reduced sentence."
