Steve Bannon, the outspoken Trump ally, officially turned himself over to authorities on Monday to fulfill a previously imposed, months-long prison sentence after a conviction on criminal allegations of contempt of Congress for defying the House committee that investigated January 6 and was led in part by now former Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Outside of the facility, Bannon and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried holding a press conference… which was heavily disrupted. When Bannon himself tried speaking at one point, from the crowd started a chant of “Lock him up!” Bannon, at the time, was trying to draw some kind of historical parallel for his newly kicked off prison sentence, notably seeming to gloss right over the months-long prison sentence imposed on ex-Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro on similar grounds. There were some on Bannon and Greene’s side also attending among the demonstrators.

Bannon’s prison sentence kicked off on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled somewhat in Trump’s favor as he claimed wide-ranging legal immunity by virtue of being president. He was trying to use the claims to shut down a criminal case he is facing that accuses him of conspiring against the 2020 presidential election results, which the court did not do, although its conservative majority did allow for Trump’s claims of immunity to the point that any trial is now significantly delayed yet again.

Up next will be proceedings at the trial level on the question of whether some of the conduct alleged of Trump falls within the newly outlined legal protections enshrined in the conservative court majority’s holdings.

Members of the nation’s highest court generally known as liberal were seriously alarmed by developments. “Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency. It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

“Lock him up! Lock him up!” — Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene are trying to hold a news conference right now and it’s not going well pic.twitter.com/5AvgXGcqxM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2024