{"id":17556,"date":"2026-01-11T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:22:14","slug":"hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth\u2019s fight against Kelly moves into untested legal waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The administrative move &mdash; which seeks to reduce Kelly&rsquo;s retirement rank and military pension &mdash; is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after he&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5682489-hegseth-kelly-rank-reduction-fight\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The administrative move &mdash; which seeks to reduce Kelly&rsquo;s retirement rank and military pension &mdash; is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after he&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17556","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\/17556","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=17556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}