{"id":11229,"date":"2025-07-12T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-says-hell-probably-vote-in-support-of-trumps-controversial-judge-pick-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T23:23:26","slug":"tillis-says-hell-probably-vote-in-support-of-trumps-controversial-judge-pick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-says-hell-probably-vote-in-support-of-trumps-controversial-judge-pick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis says he&#8217;ll \u2018probably\u2019 vote in support of Trump&#8217;s controversial judge pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis said he will likely vote to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s former criminal defense attorney and controversial pick for a judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m probably going to go with the staff recommendation,&rdquo; the North Carolina Republican told reporters Wednesday afternoon&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/09\/congress\/tillis-likely-wont-tank-bove-00445102\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Thom Tillis said he will likely vote to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump&rsquo;s former criminal defense attorney and controversial pick for a judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m probably going to go with the staff recommendation,&rdquo; the North Carolina Republican [&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-11229","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\/11229","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=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}