{"id":8068,"date":"2025-04-08T07:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-question-former-doj-officials-about-trump-administration-dealings-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:21:45","slug":"democrats-question-former-doj-officials-about-trump-administration-dealings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-question-former-doj-officials-about-trump-administration-dealings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats question former DOJ officials about Trump administration dealings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Justice Department officials addressed Congressional Democrats Monday about the Department of Justice&#8217;s alleged closed-door dealings in a so-called shadow hearing &mdash; one of the few avenues for conducting oversight of the Trump administration afforded to the minority party in a Republican governing trifecta. Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees pressed former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/07\/congress\/dems-question-former-doj-officials-00277368\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Justice Department officials addressed Congressional Democrats Monday about the Department of Justice&#8217;s alleged closed-door dealings in a so-called shadow hearing &mdash; one of the few avenues for conducting oversight of the Trump administration afforded to the minority party in a Republican governing trifecta. Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees pressed former DOJ [&hellip;]<\/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-8068","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\/8068","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=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}