{"id":10101,"date":"2025-06-10T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-seeks-guardrails-as-trump-deploys-troops-to-la-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T07:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:20:59","slug":"democratic-senator-seeks-guardrails-as-trump-deploys-troops-to-la-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-seeks-guardrails-as-trump-deploys-troops-to-la-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic senator seeks guardrails as Trump deploys troops to LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles in response to protests is driving a new push in Congress to rein in presidential power. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Blue Light News he is drafting new legislation to sharply limit a president&rsquo;s ability to deploy troops on American soil &mdash; a move he says is urgently needed after the White House sent National Guard soldiers and Marines to the country&rsquo;s second-largest city after raucous but relatively small demonstrations against immigration arrests&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/09\/congress\/blumenthal-trump-troop-deployments-insurrection-act-00395102\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles in response to protests is driving a new push in Congress to rein in presidential power. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told Blue Light News he is drafting new legislation to sharply limit a president&rsquo;s ability to deploy troops on American soil &mdash; a move he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}