{"id":104078,"date":"2020-03-21T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/doj-seeks-new-emergency-powers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-03-21T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:22:28","slug":"doj-seeks-new-emergency-powers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/doj-seeks-new-emergency-powers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doj-seeks-new-emergency-powers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies \u2014 part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies \u2014 part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.\u201d Coronavirus One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}