{"id":179718,"date":"2017-11-16T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/mistrial\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:49:00","slug":"mistrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/mistrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bribery trial of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/menendez-jury-says-again-that-it-is-deadlocked\/2017\/11\/16\/c6ae9096-c951-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html\">has ended in a hung jury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s corrupt as hell, but Supreme Court rulings since John Roberts has become Chief Justice have served to make it almost impossible for corruption to be successfully prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>The US&#8217;s drunk walk to Zimbabwe continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bribery trial of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has ended in a hung jury. He&#8217;s corrupt as hell, but Supreme Court rulings since John Roberts has become Chief Justice have served to make it almost impossible for corruption to be successfully prosecuted. The US&#8217;s drunk walk to Zimbabwe continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,407,374],"class_list":["post-179718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}