{"id":8411,"date":"2025-04-20T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-on-abrego-garcia-i-am-not-defending-the-man-im-defending-the-rights-of-this-man-to-due-process\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T19:20:22","slug":"van-hollen-on-abrego-garcia-i-am-not-defending-the-man-im-defending-the-rights-of-this-man-to-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-on-abrego-garcia-i-am-not-defending-the-man-im-defending-the-rights-of-this-man-to-due-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Hollen on Abrego Garcia: \u2018I am not defending the man. I&#8217;m defending the rights of this man to due process\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday defended his efforts to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia&rsquo;s rights, even as President Trump and his allies levy serious allegations against the deported Maryland man and highlight his mixed court record. In an interview on ABC News&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Host Jonathan Karl Asked van Hollen About &#8220;some pretty serious&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5257671-van-hollen-abrego-garcia-due-process\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Sunday defended his efforts to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia&rsquo;s rights, even as President Trump and his allies levy serious allegations against the deported Maryland man and highlight his mixed court record. In an interview on ABC News&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Host Jonathan Karl Asked van Hollen About &#8220;some pretty serious&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8411","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\/8411","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=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}