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Shooting at Michigan splash pad leaves 'nine, maybe 10 victims': authorities
Gunfire erupted at a splash pad in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, leaving as many as 10 people wounded, authorities said.
A federal judge on Monday declined to delay the upcoming trial of Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former president Donald Trump who faces contempt of Congress charges after refusing for months to co-operate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
Bannon is still scheduled to go on trial next week despite telling the House committee late Saturday that he is now prepared to testify. It's unclear whether Bannon will again decline to appear before the committee with the trial pending.
Bannon was also barred from asserting several potential defences or calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or members of the House committee to the stand. The series of rulings by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols left one of his attorneys complaining that the one-time White House senior official, now host of the "Bannon's War Room" podcast, wouldn't be able to defend himself at all.
Barring an appeals court ruling or another delay, the trial will begin as the committee continues its series of high-profile hearings into the riot. Testimony by former White House aides has revealed new allegations that Trump knew the crowd was heavily armed and that he tried to join the people marching to the Capitol.
Nichols also barred Bannon's attorneys from arguing that the committee violated House rules in demanding Bannon's appearance or that Bannon defied the subpoena on the advice of his defence counsel or at Trump's order.
And Nichols declined to delay the trial from its current start on July 18, saying any concerns about pretrial publicity due to the committee's hearings could be addressed during jury selection. If it proves impossible to pick an unbiased jury, the judge said he would reconsider granting a delay.
Bannon could potentially argue he thought the deadline to respond to the subpoena may not have been "operative" or that the date to respond could have been moved, Nichols said.
The rulings led one of Bannon's attorneys, David Schoen, to speak out in frustration as he sought clarification from the judge.
"What's the point of going to trial here if there are no defences?" Schoen asked.
"Agreed," Nichols responded.
Bannon did not appear in court Monday. Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, Schoen said he questioned whether Bannon could effectively defend himself given Nichols' rulings and hinted he would appeal.
"He's the judge," Schoen said of Nichols. "That's why they have a court of appeals."
The 68-year-old Bannon had been one of the highest-profile Trump-allied holdouts in refusing to testify before the committee, leading to two criminal counts of contempt of Congress last year for resisting the committee's subpoena. He previously argued that his testimony is protected by Trump's claim of executive privilege. The committee contends such a claim is dubious because Trump had fired Bannon from the White House in 2017 and Bannon was thus a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received a congressional referral. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days of jail and as long as a year behind bars.
Speaking to reporters after his arrest, Bannon said he was "taking on the Biden regime" and added, "This is going to be a misdemeanour from hell for Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden."
But Bannon contacted the committee over the weekend after Trump issued a letter saying he would waive any claim of executive privilege to testify before what the former president called an "unselect committee of political thugs and hacks."
Federal prosecutors argued Monday that Bannon's new offer to appear wouldn't change any criminal offence committed by not appearing earlier. Randall Eliason, a former prosecutor who now teaches law at George Washington University, agreed with that view.
"This is a criminal contempt," Eliason said. "You can't erase the charge by deciding to show up later."
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Associated Press journalist Gary Fields contributed to this report.
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