{"id":12011,"date":"2025-08-04T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grassley-offended-by-trumps-pressure-campaign-on-judges-and-u-s-attorneys\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:21:20","slug":"grassley-offended-by-trumps-pressure-campaign-on-judges-and-u-s-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/grassley-offended-by-trumps-pressure-campaign-on-judges-and-u-s-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley &#8216;offended&#8217; by Trump&#8217;s pressure campaign on judges and U.S. attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning he was &#8220;offended&#8221; by President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempts to pressure him to ram through more nominees coming before his panel without deference to lawmakers whose states would be affected. &#8220;Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on Truth Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what we call the &#8216;blue slip,'&#8221; the Iowa Republican said at the opening of a committee business meeting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/30\/congress\/trump-still-pressuring-grassley-00483116\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning he was &#8220;offended&#8221; by President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempts to pressure him to ram through more nominees coming before his panel without deference to lawmakers whose states would be affected. &#8220;Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on Truth Social go after me and Senate Republicans [&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-12011","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\/12011","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=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}