{"id":20553,"date":"2026-03-25T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gallego-merrick-garland-was-a-coward-over-jan-6-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:20:42","slug":"gallego-merrick-garland-was-a-coward-over-jan-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gallego-merrick-garland-was-a-coward-over-jan-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallego: Merrick Garland was a \u2018coward\u2019 over Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona senator said the former attorney general was &ldquo;willing to sacrifice our democracy&rdquo; to protect the institution of the Justice Department&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/25\/congress\/gallego-calls-garland-a-coward-00844773\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona senator said the former attorney general was &ldquo;willing to sacrifice our democracy&rdquo; to protect the institution of the Justice Department&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20553","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\/20553","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=20553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}