Overview

• A court filing on June 3 stipulated dismissal of the 2022 lawsuit with prejudice, preventing any further civil action over Navarro’s handling of White House records.
• The suit centered on emails Navarro sent and received via an encrypted ProtonMail account that he did not turn over to the National Archives.
• U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and a D.C. Circuit panel previously ruled against Navarro, and the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.
• Navarro has already served a four-month prison sentence after his 2023 conviction for contempt of Congress in the Jan. 6 committee investigation.
• He is slated to join the incoming Trump administration as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.