{"id":8781,"date":"2025-05-03T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democrats-urge-doj-to-drop-plan-to-repay-some-jan-6-defendants-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:34","slug":"senate-democrats-urge-doj-to-drop-plan-to-repay-some-jan-6-defendants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-democrats-urge-doj-to-drop-plan-to-repay-some-jan-6-defendants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats urge DOJ to drop plan to repay some Jan. 6 defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging the Justice Department to abandon arguments that the government must refund thousands of dollars in restitution payments to members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. &ldquo;We condemn the Justice Department&rsquo;s position that the federal government should financially reward January 6 insurrectionists who ransacked the Capitol&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/02\/congress\/senators-object-to-jan-6-repayment-plan-00324161\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging the Justice Department to abandon arguments that the government must refund thousands of dollars in restitution payments to members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. &ldquo;We condemn the Justice Department&rsquo;s position that the federal government should financially reward January 6 insurrectionists who [&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-8781","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\/8781","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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}