{"id":55422,"date":"2022-12-21T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55422"},"modified":"2022-12-21T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:35:10","slug":"senate-democrats-see-risks-to-trump-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55422","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats see risks to Trump prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are not calling on the Department of Justice to bring charges against former President Trump for his actions in the lead-up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, despite a recommendation from the House panel investigating the unprecedented event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While members of the House Jan. 6 select committee are ramping up pressure on federal prosecutors to indict Trump, Senate Democrats are taking a more cautious approach, with some arguing there\u2019s a \u201chigh bar\u201d for prosecuting a former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are not calling on&#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-55422","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\/55422","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=55422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55423,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions\/55423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}