{"id":8734,"date":"2025-05-02T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ed-martin-trumps-controversial-u-s-attorney-pick-on-thin-ice-in-the-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:21:39","slug":"ed-martin-trumps-controversial-u-s-attorney-pick-on-thin-ice-in-the-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ed-martin-trumps-controversial-u-s-attorney-pick-on-thin-ice-in-the-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Martin, Trump\u2019s controversial U.S. attorney pick, on thin ice in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s pick to be Washington&rsquo;s top prosecutor appears to be in trouble with Senate Republicans. No GOP senator has said they will oppose Ed Martin to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a spot he currently fills in an acting capacity. But several are publicly raising concerns or refusing to say if they will vote for him &mdash; an unusual posture for senators who have been largely deferential to Trump&rsquo;s nominees&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/01\/congress\/ed-martin-senate-confirmation-woes-00322346\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s pick to be Washington&rsquo;s top prosecutor appears to be in trouble with Senate Republicans. No GOP senator has said they will oppose Ed Martin to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a spot he currently fills in an acting capacity. But several are publicly raising concerns or refusing to say if [&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-8734","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\/8734","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=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}