{"id":19192,"date":"2026-02-21T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-lauds-supreme-court-tariff-decision-in-defense-of-our-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:22:19","slug":"rand-paul-lauds-supreme-court-tariff-decision-in-defense-of-our-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-lauds-supreme-court-tariff-decision-in-defense-of-our-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul lauds Supreme Court tariff decision: &#8216;In defense of our Republic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday commended the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision to strike down a majority of President Trump&#8217;s tariffs on foreign trading partners. Paul, a long-time critic of the sweeping import taxes, called the ruling a &#8220;defense of our Republic&#8221; in a post on social platform X&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5747623-rand-paul-donald-trump-supreme-court-tariff-decision\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday commended the Supreme Court&rsquo;s decision to strike down a majority of President Trump&#8217;s tariffs on foreign trading partners. Paul, a long-time critic of the sweeping import taxes, called the ruling a &#8220;defense of our Republic&#8221; in a post on social platform X&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19192","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\/19192","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=19192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}