{"id":6660,"date":"2025-02-27T04:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-nominee-for-solicitor-general-wont-rule-out-ignoring-court-orders-in-extreme-cases-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T04:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:23:50","slug":"trumps-nominee-for-solicitor-general-wont-rule-out-ignoring-court-orders-in-extreme-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-nominee-for-solicitor-general-wont-rule-out-ignoring-court-orders-in-extreme-cases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s nominee for solicitor general won\u2019t rule out ignoring court orders in \u2018extreme cases\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to be solicitor general told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that presidents might rightfully defy court orders in &ldquo;extreme cases.&rdquo; &ldquo;Generally, if there&rsquo;s a direct court order that binds a federal or state official, they should follow it,&rdquo; D. John Sauer said at his confirmation hearing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/26\/congress\/trumps-nominee-for-solicitor-general-00206266\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to be solicitor general told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that presidents might rightfully defy court orders in &ldquo;extreme cases.&rdquo; &ldquo;Generally, if there&rsquo;s a direct court order that binds a federal or state official, they should follow it,&rdquo; D. John Sauer said at his confirmation hearing&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","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=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}