{"id":18179,"date":"2026-01-25T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-jack-smith-speaks-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:22:22","slug":"capitol-agenda-jack-smith-speaks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-jack-smith-speaks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Jack Smith speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s the televised showdown both Republicans and Democrats have long wanted: Former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith takes the hot seat in front of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday morning.  It&rsquo;s likely to be a long and lively examination of his aborted effort to convict President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/22\/congress\/jack-smith-testifies-congress-house-judiciary-trump-00740622\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s the televised showdown both Republicans and Democrats have long wanted: Former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith takes the hot seat in front of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday morning. It&rsquo;s likely to be a long and lively examination of his aborted effort to convict President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/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-18179","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\/18179","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=18179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}