{"id":541378,"date":"2010-04-22T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0134800f00c2970c"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:34:29","slug":"blagojevich-wants-to-subpoena-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541378","title":{"rendered":"Blagojevich wants to subpoena President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Breaking News Cente<\/em>r:<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n                    Lawyers for former Gov. Rod<br \/>\nBlagojevich today asked a federal judge for permission to subpoena<br \/>\nPresident Barack Obama to testify at Blagojevich&#8217;s upcoming trial.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Blagojevich<br \/>\n is charged with using his office to enrich himself and close<br \/>\nassociates, including allegations he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat<br \/>\nthat Obama vacated in 2008 with his election to the White House.<br \/><\/br>\n                  <\/div>\n<p>                    Blagojevich&#8217;s lawyers have<br \/>\npreviously suggested they might try to<br \/>\nquestion the president.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;President Obama has direct knowledge to<br \/>\nallegations made in the indictment,&quot; the defense said in its filing. &quot;In<br \/>\n addition, President Obama&#8217;s public statements contradict other witness<br \/>\nstatements.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/blago-defense-seeks-permission-to-subpoena-obama.html\">please click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Breaking News Center: Lawyers for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich today asked a federal judge for permission to subpoena President Barack Obama to testify at Blagojevich&#8217;s upcoming trial.Blagojevich is charged with using his office to enrich himself and close associates, including allegations he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat that Obama vacated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}