Steve Bannon, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, is asking a federal judge to release him from prison early based on factors he said indicate a likely appeal before the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
His Aug. 29 filing noted that the circuit was taking a relatively prolonged time to consider his request for an en banc, or full court, hearing and that the circuit had taken what it portrayed as a rare step of asking the government to weigh in on the legal interpretation of “willfully” in federal law.
More specifically, he’s requesting bail pending appeal or “a term of supervised release of just a few days.”…