{"id":8333,"date":"2019-08-07T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T00:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/07\/the-trump-appointee-whos-putting-white-supremacists-in-jail\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:36:59","slug":"the-trump-appointee-whos-putting-white-supremacists-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-trump-appointee-whos-putting-white-supremacists-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump appointee who\u2019s putting white supremacists in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Thomas Cullen was featured in an article in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/magazine\/wp\/2019\/08\/07\/feature\/the-trump-appointee-whos-putting-white-supremacists-in-jail\/\">The Washington Post Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> titled \u201cThe Trump Appointee Who\u2019s Putting White Supremacists in Jail.\u201d As the chief federal prosecutor for the Western District of Virginia, Cullen \u201cis on a mission: to use the federal judiciary to strike a blow against mounting white nationalist violence.\u201d And that started with prosecuting some of the more violent protesters at the 2017 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p>Cullen graduated from Furman in 2000 with a degree in history and received his law degree from the College of William and Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Thomas Cullen was featured in an article in The Washington Post Magazine titled \u201cThe Trump Appointee Who\u2019s Putting White Supremacists in Jail.\u201d As the chief federal prosecutor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}