Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon has asked a federal judge to let him leave prison early to continue appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress. The former White House chief strategist reported to prison in July to begin serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, and his attorneys asked the judge who oversaw the trial to release him from prison before his scheduled release date of Oct. 29, reported CNN. “Mr. Bannon’s case presents compelling circumstances because of the subsequent developments discussed a…