{"id":12474,"date":"2025-08-20T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-wants-the-senate-to-scrap-the-blue-slip-republicans-arent-interested\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:21:37","slug":"trump-wants-the-senate-to-scrap-the-blue-slip-republicans-arent-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-wants-the-senate-to-scrap-the-blue-slip-republicans-arent-interested\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants the Senate to scrap the &#8216;blue slip.&#8217; Republicans aren&#8217;t interested."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators are fiercely protective of the longstanding precedent that gives them deference over who serves as U.S. attorneys and district court judges back home&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/senate-republicans-blue-slip-00513489\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators are fiercely protective of the longstanding precedent that gives them deference over who serves as U.S. attorneys and district court judges back home&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","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\/12474","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=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}