{"id":21761,"date":"2026-04-23T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oversight-members-split-over-whether-to-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-committee-chair-says-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:21:16","slug":"oversight-members-split-over-whether-to-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-committee-chair-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oversight-members-split-over-whether-to-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-committee-chair-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein has said she would testify to Congress if granted clemency &mdash; a power held solely by the president&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/04\/22\/congress\/to-pardon-maxwell-or-not-00887823\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein has said she would testify to Congress if granted clemency &mdash; a power held solely by the president&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21761","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\/21761","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=21761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}