{"id":10493,"date":"2025-06-22T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/a-judge-sided-with-trump-behind-the-scenes-he-was-lobbying-for-a-nomination-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:20:37","slug":"a-judge-sided-with-trump-behind-the-scenes-he-was-lobbying-for-a-nomination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/a-judge-sided-with-trump-behind-the-scenes-he-was-lobbying-for-a-nomination-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by Blue Light News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/ed-artau-trump-judge-nomination-florida-00415408\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by Blue Light News&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493","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=10493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}