{"id":21167,"date":"2026-04-11T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-asks-judge-to-allow-search-of-washington-post-reporters-phone-laptops\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:20:17","slug":"doj-asks-judge-to-allow-search-of-washington-post-reporters-phone-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doj-asks-judge-to-allow-search-of-washington-post-reporters-phone-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ asks judge to allow search of Washington Post reporter&#8217;s phone, laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) is asking a federal judge in Virginia to allow it to conduct its own search of a Washington Post reporter&rsquo;s seized electronic devices, rather than have the court do the review. Federal prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in a March 31 court filing to overturn a lower court&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5826638-doj-seeks-reporter-device-search-washington-post\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) is asking a federal judge in Virginia to allow it to conduct its own search of a Washington Post reporter&rsquo;s seized electronic devices, rather than have the court do the review. Federal prosecutors urged U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in a March 31 court filing to overturn a lower court&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21167","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\/21167","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=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}