{"id":19078,"date":"2026-02-16T21:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-pans-political-lawfare-after-grand-jury-declines-to-indict-democratic-lawmakers-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:20:36","slug":"tillis-pans-political-lawfare-after-grand-jury-declines-to-indict-democratic-lawmakers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-pans-political-lawfare-after-grand-jury-declines-to-indict-democratic-lawmakers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis pans \u2018political lawfare\u2019 after grand jury declines to indict Democratic lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Thom Tillis slammed the Justice Department&rsquo;s push to criminally charge Democratic lawmakers who last November urged military servicemembers to disobey illegal orders in a video, calling it &ldquo;political lawfare&rdquo; in a post on X on Wednesday. A Washington, D.C., grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict the six lawmakers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/11\/congress\/tillis-on-lawfare-00775810\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Thom Tillis slammed the Justice Department&rsquo;s push to criminally charge Democratic lawmakers who last November urged military servicemembers to disobey illegal orders in a video, calling it &ldquo;political lawfare&rdquo; in a post on X on Wednesday. A Washington, D.C., grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict the six lawmakers&#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-19078","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\/19078","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=19078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}