{"id":44057,"date":"2022-01-24T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44057"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:02:50","slug":"virginias-new-republican-ag-urges-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-v-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44057","title":{"rendered":"Virginia&#8217;s new Republican AG urges Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade"},"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\">Virginia\u2019s newly elected Republican attorney general has urged the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and hand authority over abortion to the states, reversing the commonwealth\u2019s legal position in a landmark challenge now pending before the court.<\/p>\n<p>Under the state\u2019s previously Democratic-led administration, Virginia had joined 21 other states in urging the justices to invalidate Mississippi\u2019s 15-week abortion ban and reaffirm the core holding of the court\u2019s 1973 decision in Roe.<\/p>\n<p>But in his first week on the job after defeating the state\u2019s Democratic incumbent in a November election, Virginia\u2019s new attorney general Jason Miyares (R) announced a dramatic shift in course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia\u2019s newly elected Republican attorney general&#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-44057","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\/44057","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=44057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44058,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44057\/revisions\/44058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}