{"id":23445,"date":"2026-05-31T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department-asks-for-judges-recusal-from-georgia-election-case-over-fani-willis-event\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:22:16","slug":"justice-department-asks-for-judges-recusal-from-georgia-election-case-over-fani-willis-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department-asks-for-judges-recusal-from-georgia-election-case-over-fani-willis-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department asks for judge\u2019s recusal from Georgia election case over Fani Willis event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday asked a federal judge to recuse herself from overseeing the department&#8217;s lawsuit against Georgia election officials, arguing that her attendance at an event honoring Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis raises questions about her ability to remain impartial. In a filing submitted to the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5902833-doj-asks-judge-recusal-georgia\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday asked a federal judge to recuse herself from overseeing the department&#8217;s lawsuit against Georgia election officials, arguing that her attendance at an event honoring Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis raises questions about her ability to remain impartial. In a filing submitted to the U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23445","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\/23445","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=23445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}