{"id":28376,"date":"2024-12-13T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/president-biden-stand-up-to-chevron-and-pardon-steven-donziger-jim-mcgovern\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:18:12","slug":"president-biden-stand-up-to-chevron-and-pardon-steven-donziger-jim-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/president-biden-stand-up-to-chevron-and-pardon-steven-donziger-jim-mcgovern\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden: stand up to Chevron and pardon Steven Donziger | Jim McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It\u2019s time for Biden to end this nightmare<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tale as old as time: an underdog fighting for what\u2019s right, and a powerful giant doing everything it can to stop him. Yet in today\u2019s America, the giants don\u2019t lose \u2013 they rig the system to crush anyone who dares to challenge them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what happened to Steven Donziger, a well-known human rights lawyer who stood up to oil giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/chevron\">Chevron<\/a>. After helping Indigenous and farming communities in Ecuador secure a historic $9.5bn judgment against the company for decades of environmental destruction, Chevron retaliated with a vicious legal campaign designed not just to discredit him, but to ruin his life.<\/p>\n<p>Jim McGovern is a congressman from Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/13\/president-biden-stand-up-to-chevron-and-pardon-steven-donziger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It\u2019s time for Biden to end this nightmare It\u2019s a tale as old as time: an underdog fighting for what\u2019s right, and a powerful giant doing everything it can to stop him. Yet in today\u2019s America, the giants don\u2019t &#8230; <a title=\"President Biden: stand up to Chevron and pardon Steven Donziger | Jim McGovern\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/president-biden-stand-up-to-chevron-and-pardon-steven-donziger-jim-mcgovern\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about President Biden: stand up to Chevron and pardon Steven Donziger | Jim McGovern\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}