{"id":188896,"date":"2018-11-09T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=188896"},"modified":"2018-11-09T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T06:41:14","slug":"acting-ag-faced-criticism-case-gay-iowa-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/09\/acting-ag-faced-criticism-case-gay-iowa-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting AG faced criticism for case against gay Iowa Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188897\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188897\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dra9nrBWoAIFhj4-1024x618.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The case against McCoy fell apart in court amid allegations of political bias and prosecutorial misconduct. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mccoyforiowa\/status\/1060243254954860544\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mccoyforiowa\/\">@mccoyforiowa\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2014 In 2007, Matt McCoy was a rising star in the Democratic Party, Iowa&#8217;s first openly gay senator and a leading champion for the party&#8217;s causes.<\/p>\n<p>But then, his allies say, McCoy&#8217;s promising career was stalled by a politically-motivated prosecution brought by a Republican U.S. attorney, Matthew G. Whitaker, who became nation&#8217;s top law enforcement official after President Donald Trump named him acting attorney general Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The case against McCoy fell apart in court amid allegations of political bias and prosecutorial misconduct. A jury quickly acquitted McCoy of the charge, deciding that he had not attempted to extort money from a former business partner.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy says he&#8217;s shocked by Whitaker&#8217;s elevation to lead the Justice Department. He says his case should serve as a warning that Whitaker will not hesitate to pursue Democrats and Trump&#8217;s desire to curtail special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2014 In 2007, Matt McCoy was a rising star in the Democratic Party, Iowa&#8217;s first openly gay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":188897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-ryan-j-foley","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}