{"id":15908,"date":"2018-09-21T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15908"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T21:22:38","slug":"can-trump-protect-kavanaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15908","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump protect Kavanaugh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"88\">\n<p>A high-stakes standoff is under way in Washington over US President Donald Trump&#8217;s choice for Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The university professor said she&#8217;s prepared to testify to Congress, but with some conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, who control the US Senate, have told her she has to meet Monday&#8217;s deadline, although they indicated later on Friday the hearing could be moved to Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old Ford said she was attacked by Kavanaugh when both were high school students.<\/p>\n<p>Midterm elections in November are seen as a popularity test for Trump and the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Will the latest scandal in Washington sway voters?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Hashem Ahelbarra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Hauser &#8211; executive director, Revolving Door Project, Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/p>\n<p>Claire Finkelstein &#8211; director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Pratte &#8211; board member, Republican Women for Progress<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-stakes standoff is under way in Washington over US President Donald Trump&#8217;s choice for Supreme Court justice. Brett Kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford. The university professor said she&#8217;s prepared to testify to Congress, but with some conditions. Republicans, who control the US Senate, have told her she has to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}