{"id":21066,"date":"2026-04-08T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/blanche-says-doj-providing-counsel-on-legality-of-iran-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:22:06","slug":"blanche-says-doj-providing-counsel-on-legality-of-iran-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/blanche-says-doj-providing-counsel-on-legality-of-iran-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanche says DOJ providing counsel on legality of Iran strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been providing legal counsel to the Trump administration on possible strikes on Iran. &ldquo;The Department of Justice as it always does, supports the Department of War, the White House, Department of State to the extent that&#8217;s involved&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5820221-trump-doj-legal-counsel-iran\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been providing legal counsel to the Trump administration on possible strikes on Iran. &ldquo;The Department of Justice as it always does, supports the Department of War, the White House, Department of State to the extent that&#8217;s involved&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21066","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\/21066","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=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}