{"id":46727,"date":"2022-03-30T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46727"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:17:21","slug":"mcconnell-blasts-clumsy-bullying-amid-thomas-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46727","title":{"rendered":"McConnell blasts &#8216;clumsy bullying&#8217; amid Thomas scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) on Wednesday doubled down on his defense of Justice\u00a0Clarence Thomas, blasting &#8220;clumsy bullying from the political branches&#8221; over Thomas&#8217;s handling of\u00a0cases related to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s comments come\u00a0after days of criticism\u00a0in the wake of reports that\u00a0Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas&#8217;s wife, urged then-White House chief of staff\u00a0Mark Meadows\u00a0to move aggressively to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) on Wednesday&#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-46727","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\/46727","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=46727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46728,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46727\/revisions\/46728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}