{"id":25515,"date":"2025-07-02T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25515"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:38:20","slug":"justice-dept-explores-using-criminal-charges-against-election-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=25515","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25516\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-4.36.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-4.36.32-PM.png 622w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screen-Shot-2025-07-02-at-4.36.32-PM-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/02\/us\/politics\/justice-department-election-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.Ust9.wNx2U0tJzyiQ&amp;smid=url-share\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/02\/us\/politics\/justice-department-election-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.Ust9.wNx2U0tJzyiQ&amp;smid=url-share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}