Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s legal team on Tuesday requested the judge delay his criminal contempt of Congress trial as they tussled with prosecutors over the admissibility of key pieces of evidence.
Final jury selection and opening statements were slated to begin early Tuesday. The proceedings, however, became mired in a back and forth over court-ordered redactions to correspondence from the House Jan. 6 committee to Mr. Bannon, which the defense previously sought to exclude.
Mr. Bannon is on trial for criminal contempt of Congress after defying the Jan. 6 committee’s demands for documents and deposition in its probe of the Jan.