{"id":28183,"date":"2017-01-09T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28183"},"modified":"2017-01-09T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:14:43","slug":"ron-paul-on-sen-jeff-sessions-libertarian-or-authoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/ron-paul-on-sen-jeff-sessions-libertarian-or-authoritarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Sen. Jeff Sessions: Libertarian or Authoritarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to be his Attorney General. Sessions is billed as a &#8220;Constitutional conservative&#8221; but how is his record on civil liberties? The drug war? Whistleblowers? We hold a pre-hearing hearing in today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhPMnDd0rmY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to be his Attorney General. Sessions is billed as a &#8220;Constitutional conservative&#8221; but how is his record on civil liberties? The drug war? Whistleblowers? We hold a pre-hearing hearing in today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Reprinted from The Ron Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28186,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183\/revisions\/28186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}