{"id":548129,"date":"2010-04-30T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ed15e502970b"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:09:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:09:37","slug":"judge-says-no-to-blagojevich-subpoena-of-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548129","title":{"rendered":"Judge says no to Blagojevich subpoena of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Breaking News Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n                    The judge overseeing the<br \/>\ncorruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has denied a defense<br \/>\n motion to issue a subpoena for the testimony of President Barack Obama.<br \/>\n <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>U.S. District Judge James Zagel said he does not believe<br \/>\nObama&#8217;s testimony would be material to the charges.<br \/><\/br>\n                  <\/div>\n<p>                    Zagel said the defense motion<br \/>\nfell &quot;very short&quot; of demonstrating a need to subpoena the president.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n defense had said it wanted to question the president about<br \/>\nBlagojevich&#8217;s alleged attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat left vacant<br \/>\nwhen Obama was elected. <\/p>\n<p>Read more from Tribune federal courts reporter Jeff Coen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/judge-will-not-subpoena-obama-for-blago-trial.html\">by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Breaking News Center: The judge overseeing the corruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has denied a defense motion to issue a subpoena for the testimony of President Barack Obama. U.S. District Judge James Zagel said he does not believe Obama&#8217;s testimony would be material to the charges. Zagel said the defense motion [&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-548129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548129","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=548129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}