{"id":41018,"date":"2021-10-11T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41018"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T23:29:14","slug":"bannons-subpoena-snub-sets-up-big-decision-for-biden-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41018","title":{"rendered":"Bannon&#8217;s subpoena snub sets up big decision for Biden DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Former Trump White House strategist\u00a0Steve Bannon\u2019s choice to buck a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could tee up a big decision for a Justice Department determined to strike an independent tone.<\/p>\n<p>The House committee has said it may refer Bannon for criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice (DOJ) if he doesn\u2019t appear for a deposition slated for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Such a move would place Attorney General\u00a0Merrick Garland\u00a0in the center of a debate over whether to go after a former right-hand man of\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0after vowing to restore the reputation of a department that was deeply politicized under the prior administration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump White House strategist\u00a0Steve Bannon\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41019,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41018\/revisions\/41019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}