{"id":149612,"date":"2026-04-13T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149612"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:03:14","slug":"swalwell-to-quit-us-congress-following-sexual-misconduct-allegationsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149612","title":{"rendered":"Swalwell to quit US Congress following sexual misconduct allegationsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS congressman Eric Swalwell said on Monday he will resign from the House of Representatives, bowing to pressure from both Democrats and Republicans to leave Congress or face expulsion following sexual misconduct allegations that upended his campaign for governor.<br \/>\nThe California Democrat vowed \u200cto fight the allegations but said he must also \u201ctake responsibility and ownership\u201d of his mistakes.<br \/>\n\u201cExpelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong,\u201d&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3349966\/swalwell-quit-congress-following-sexual-misconduct-allegations?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS congressman Eric Swalwell said on Monday he will resign from the House of Representatives, bowing to pressure from both Democrats&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}