{"id":12064,"date":"2025-08-05T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kavanaugh-was-confirmed-almost-7-years-ago-the-saga-still-haunts-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:21:15","slug":"kavanaugh-was-confirmed-almost-7-years-ago-the-saga-still-haunts-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kavanaugh-was-confirmed-almost-7-years-ago-the-saga-still-haunts-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavanaugh was confirmed almost 7 years ago. The saga still haunts the Senate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in the chamber&rsquo;s history still looms large&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/04\/kavanaugh-confirmation-saga-haunts-senate-00491267\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&rsquo;s contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in the chamber&rsquo;s history still looms large&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12064","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\/12064","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=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}