{"id":12268,"date":"2025-08-12T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-trump-can-and-cant-do-in-his-bid-to-take-over-law-enforcement-in-dc-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:21:25","slug":"what-trump-can-and-cant-do-in-his-bid-to-take-over-law-enforcement-in-dc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-trump-can-and-cant-do-in-his-bid-to-take-over-law-enforcement-in-dc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Trump can \u2014 and can\u2019t \u2014 do in his bid to take over law enforcement in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capital is already subject to significant federal control &mdash; and Trump is invoking his emergency powers to solidify it&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/dc-law-enforcement-national-guard-deployment-00502896\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital is already subject to significant federal control &mdash; and Trump is invoking his emergency powers to solidify it&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","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\/12268","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=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}