{"id":22637,"date":"2026-05-13T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:32:13","slug":"speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-calls-allegations-against-chuck-edwards-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker calls allegations against Chuck Edwards &#8216;serious&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the allegations against Rep. Chuck Edwards are \u201cserious\u201d and that he has spoken to the North Carolina Republican \u2014 who reportedly denied them all.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also noted an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct and harassment accusations against Edwards, who is alleged to have had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a staffer, among other things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday the allegations against Rep. Chuck Edwards are \u201cserious\u201d and that he has spoken to the North Carolina Republican \u2014 who reportedly denied them all. Johnson also noted an ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation into sexual misconduct and harassment accusations against Edwards, who is alleged to have had an inappropriate sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","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=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}