{"id":132213,"date":"2020-02-15T01:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/15\/trump-claims-he-has-legal-right-to-intervene-in-criminal-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T01:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:29:57","slug":"trump-claims-he-has-legal-right-to-intervene-in-criminal-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132213","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he has &#039;legal right&#039; to intervene in criminal cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President reasserts his right to tweet on judicial issues following William Barr\u2019s warning the posts \u2018make it impossible for me to do my job\u2019Donald Trump has ignored a plea from his attorney general, William Barr, to not tweet about ongoing legal cases, by using his Twitter account to say he has a \u201clegal right\u201d to do so.Barr delivered a remarkable public rebuke of the president just hours earlier, saying that Trump\u2019s tweets \u201cmake it impossible for me to do my job\u201d and that he would not be \u201cbullied or influenced\u201d over justice department decisions. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/feb\/14\/trump-claims-legal-right-intervene-criminal-cases-william-barr-plea-not-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Trump claims he has &#039;legal right&#039; to intervene in criminal cases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President reasserts his right to tweet on judicial issues following William Barr\u2019s warning the posts \u2018make it impossible for me to do my job\u2019Donald Trump has ignored a plea from his attorney general, William Barr, to not tweet about ongoing legal cases, by using his Twitter account to say he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}