{"id":4668,"date":"2025-01-09T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-alito-has-made-impropriety-the-norm\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:20:29","slug":"democratic-senator-alito-has-made-impropriety-the-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democratic-senator-alito-has-made-impropriety-the-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic senator: Alito has made impropriety the norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday blasted conservative Justice Samuel Alito for having a conversation with President-elect Trump amidst Trump&rsquo;s effort to have courts halt his criminal sentencing in New York. &ldquo;Brazenly unapologetic, Justice Alito has made impropriety the norm,&rdquo; Blumenthal wrote on social media&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5076425-blumenthal-alito-trump-call\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday blasted conservative Justice Samuel Alito for having a conversation with President-elect Trump amidst Trump&rsquo;s effort to have courts halt his criminal sentencing in New York. &ldquo;Brazenly unapologetic, Justice Alito has made impropriety the norm,&rdquo; Blumenthal wrote on social media&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","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\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}