{"id":15816,"date":"2025-11-18T23:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/clay-higgins-explains-why-he-was-the-lone-no-vote-on-epstein-files-release-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:20:49","slug":"clay-higgins-explains-why-he-was-the-lone-no-vote-on-epstein-files-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/clay-higgins-explains-why-he-was-the-lone-no-vote-on-epstein-files-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Higgins explains why he was the lone \u2019no\u2019 vote on Epstein files release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), the lone &#8220;no&#8221; vote on the near-unanimous House legislation to force a release of the Justice Department&rsquo;s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said on Tuesday that he opposed it on privacy grounds. &ldquo;It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America,&rdquo; Higgins wrote on X&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/18\/congress\/clay-higgins-no-vote-epstein-00657430\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), the lone &#8220;no&#8221; vote on the near-unanimous House legislation to force a release of the Justice Department&rsquo;s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said on Tuesday that he opposed it on privacy grounds. &ldquo;It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America,&rdquo; Higgins wrote on X&#8230;Read More<\/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-15816","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\/15816","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=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}