A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s onetime adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to delay his prison sentence on Thursday, meaning he will need to report to a prison in Miami next week.

The three federal judges ruled Navarro’s legal team had failed to prove that his appeal would result in the reversal of his four-month prison sentence, even if taken to the Supreme Court.

“[Navarro had] not shown that his appeal presents substantial questions of law or fact likely to result in reversal, a new trial, a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment or a reduced sentence of imprisonment that is less than the amount of time already served plus the expected duration of the appeal process,” the judges ruled.

The ruling comes after the former Trump adviser petitioned the appeals court to delay his sentence until he went through the proper appeals process for his “contempt of Congress” convictions. Navarro was convicted on two contempt charges last year for defying the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena in 2022.

Navarro is regarded as an important player in Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and federal prosecutors argued in his trial that he “put politics, not country, first, stonewalled Congress’s investigation … and chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law.”

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U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw Navarro’s contempt case, claimed in his sentencing that the former trade adviser is “not a victim or object of political prosecution” and has received due process. He also declined to keep Navarro out of prison pending appeal.

Navarro is expected to report to federal prison in Miami by 2 p.m. EST on March 19. He is the second former Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress after Steve Bannon, who has been allowed to remain free pending his own appeal.