WASHINGTON — Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller spent six hours Tuesday at U.S. District Court here, where the grand jury tied to special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation meets.
Miller arrived around 9:40 a.m. ET and left around 3:40 p.m.
Neither Miller nor his attorney responded in the morning when asked what Miller was doing there.
The grand jury is investigating the role former President Donald Trump played in the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Miller was a senior adviser to the president and the director of speechwriting at the time of the riot.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., last week denied an emergency motion filed by Trump's legal team to block the testimony of several of the former president's White House aides, including Miller.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell had ruled in March that Miller, Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, who handled the former president's social media, and others must testify despite Trump’s invocation of executive privilege.
The appeals court's denial of Trump's motion was part of a sealed proceeding, which means court documents aren’t public. Notice of the denial of the motion was posted on a docket that NBC News has confirmed is associated with the appeal of an order requiring Meadows and others to testify.
Meanwhile, Trump filed an appeal in federal court Monday to block former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before the federal grand jury. It’s unclear when Pence would appear before the grand jury in Washington, a source familiar with the matter said last week.
