{"id":8226,"date":"2025-04-12T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republican-sues-for-2-5-million-over-2021-capitol-police-office-search\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:22:39","slug":"house-republican-sues-for-2-5-million-over-2021-capitol-police-office-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republican-sues-for-2-5-million-over-2021-capitol-police-office-search\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican sues for $2.5 million over 2021 Capitol Police office search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican is suing the federal government for $2.5 million, claiming he was retaliated against by the Capitol Police four years ago for his vocal criticism of the department&rsquo;s leadership after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Rep. Troy Nehls&rsquo; unusual lawsuit, filed in federal court in his home state of Texas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/11\/congress\/troy-nehls-sues-capitol-police-00286502\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican is suing the federal government for $2.5 million, claiming he was retaliated against by the Capitol Police four years ago for his vocal criticism of the department&rsquo;s leadership after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Rep. Troy Nehls&rsquo; unusual lawsuit, filed in federal court in his home state of Texas&#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-8226","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\/8226","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=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}