{"id":8912,"date":"2025-05-07T04:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-says-hell-oppose-ed-martin-dealing-grave-blow-to-trumps-dc-prosecutor-pick\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:21:34","slug":"tillis-says-hell-oppose-ed-martin-dealing-grave-blow-to-trumps-dc-prosecutor-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tillis-says-hell-oppose-ed-martin-dealing-grave-blow-to-trumps-dc-prosecutor-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tillis says he\u2019ll oppose Ed Martin, dealing grave blow to Trump&#8217;s DC prosecutor pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday he has told the White House he will oppose Ed Martin&rsquo;s nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, a potentially fatal blow to his already dicey confirmation chances. Tillis spoke to reporters after meeting with Martin on Monday night&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/06\/congress\/thom-tillis-opposes-ed-martin-00330664\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday he has told the White House he will oppose Ed Martin&rsquo;s nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, a potentially fatal blow to his already dicey confirmation chances. Tillis spoke to reporters after meeting with Martin on Monday night&#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-8912","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\/8912","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=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}