Navarro’s bid to toss conviction gets frosty reception from appeals court  

Peter Navarro’s bid to overturn his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena appeared to receive little backing from a federal appeals court Thursday.  A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grilled Navarro lawyer Stanley Brand during an unusual oral argument where only the White House trade adviser’s counsel laid out a case, after the Justice Department dropped its defense of the prosecution earlier this…