{"id":10459,"date":"2025-06-20T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-gets-behind-a-judicial-nominee-he-previously-blocked-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:23:12","slug":"rand-paul-gets-behind-a-judicial-nominee-he-previously-blocked-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-gets-behind-a-judicial-nominee-he-previously-blocked-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul gets behind a judicial nominee he previously blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Rand Paul is throwing his support behind a home-state judicial pick that he stalled three years ago as part of a feud with his fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell. Trump said this week he will nominate Chad Meredith to serve as a judge on the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/20\/congress\/rand-paul-chad-meredith-nomination-00415313\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Rand Paul is throwing his support behind a home-state judicial pick that he stalled three years ago as part of a feud with his fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell. Trump said this week he will nominate Chad Meredith to serve as a judge on the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/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-10459","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\/10459","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=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}