{"id":3153,"date":"2024-12-02T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raskin-launches-challenge-for-top-judiciary-panel-democratic-spot\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:34:07","slug":"raskin-launches-challenge-for-top-judiciary-panel-democratic-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/raskin-launches-challenge-for-top-judiciary-panel-democratic-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Raskin launches challenge for top Judiciary panel Democratic spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) launched a challenge to top House Judiciary Democrat Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Monday afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000193-889d-d1f8-ad9b-bf9db04c0000\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter to Democratic colleagues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bid sets up a generational clash for the leadership of one of the most high profile congressional panels as Democrats look to build a bulwark against Donald Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a week consulting most of our Colleagues and engaging in serious introspection about where we are, I am running today to be your Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee in the 119th Congress,&#8221; Raskin wrote. &#8220;This is where we will wage our front-line defense of the freedoms and rights of the people, the integrity of the Department of Justice and the FBI, and the security of our most precious birthright possessions: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, and democracy itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) launched a challenge to top House Judiciary Democrat Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Monday afternoon in a letter to Democratic colleagues. The bid sets up a generational clash for the leadership of one of the most high profile congressional panels as Democrats look to build a bulwark against Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. \u201cAfter [&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-3153","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\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}