{"id":12987,"date":"2025-09-06T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-unveil-slew-of-bills-to-overhaul-dc-criminal-justice-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:21:56","slug":"republicans-unveil-slew-of-bills-to-overhaul-dc-criminal-justice-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-unveil-slew-of-bills-to-overhaul-dc-criminal-justice-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans unveil slew of bills to overhaul DC criminal justice policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on Friday unveiled 14 bills intended to reduce local government autonomy and harshen punishments for youth and violent offenders in Washington, D.C amid President Trump&#8217;s crime crackdown in the nation&#8217;s capital. &ldquo;President Trump and House Republicans are committed to restoring law and order in our nation&rsquo;s capital city&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5489678-republicans-dc-crime-bills\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans on Friday unveiled 14 bills intended to reduce local government autonomy and harshen punishments for youth and violent offenders in Washington, D.C amid President Trump&#8217;s crime crackdown in the nation&#8217;s capital. &ldquo;President Trump and House Republicans are committed to restoring law and order in our nation&rsquo;s capital city&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12987","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\/12987","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=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}