{"id":2040,"date":"2024-11-12T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/doj-says-jack-smiths-delay-in-trump-case-is-no-reason-to-do-the-same-for-jan-6-defendants-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","slug":"doj-says-jack-smiths-delay-in-trump-case-is-no-reason-to-do-the-same-for-jan-6-defendants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-says-jack-smiths-delay-in-trump-case-is-no-reason-to-do-the-same-for-jan-6-defendants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ says Jack Smith\u2019s delay in Trump case is no reason to do the same for Jan. 6 defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s decision to pause his prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump is no reason to do the same for members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department argued Monday. Several Jan. 6 defendants have used Smith&rsquo;s call for a three-week breather &mdash; quickly endorsed by U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/11\/congress\/department-of-justice-january-6-cases-00188804\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special counsel Jack Smith&rsquo;s decision to pause his prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump is no reason to do the same for members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department argued Monday. Several Jan. 6 defendants have used Smith&rsquo;s call for a three-week breather &mdash; quickly endorsed by U.S&#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-2040","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\/2040","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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}