This woman. So far, she’s the *least* qualified of all Trump’s choices, and she’s ragingly stupid. She has *no idea* whatsoever about how to do her job. None. At least most of the others had a bit of a clue, whereas she has no clues, no hints, no idea how to do anything. Good grief! From AlterNet:
In an article for Salon published Sunday, writer Sophia Tesfaye argued that the appointment of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., the “face of President Donald Trump’s new law‑and‑order regime,” is backfiring. The article noted that so far, her time in office has been marked by grandstanding and symbolic arrests — tactics that courts have repeatedly dismantled. Tesfaye asserted that the federal takeover of D.C.’s law enforcement apparatus “is little more than theater with essentially no legal foundation.” She added that Pirro, plucked from Fox News for her loyalty and ratings, has prioritized aggressive messaging over prosecutorial substance.
Let’s start with the article I wrote recently, where she tried to get a grand jury to call a felony for the guy who threw a sandwich. And she tried THREE times, failing at each one. Then the court threw out the misdemeanor, too. What kind of legal knowledge is this? It seems to me that she has none and is doing what she’s seen on cop shows or something ridiculous like that. She doesn’t know what she’s doing, but she insists she does. The proof shows differently.
The article further highlighted that Pirro’s team “whiffed on three cases alleging defendants assaulted federal agents,” and the New York Times has pointed to her office’s struggle to match her bombastic rhetoric, given the exodus of career-level prosecutors and staff. Tefaye also noted that Pirro resorted to enlisting military lawyers to backfill massive staffing shortages, with 90 prosecutors and 60 support staff reportedly missing. This has overwhelmed the D.C. federal courts, used to six new cases per week, now inundated with six or more per day, pushing trial dates into 2027 and forcing judges to hasten hearings under pressure.
Okay, so I didn’t read quite far enough in the article I’m quoting to see the same thing I discussed was included. Oops. She says it better. “Whiffed”. There’s laughter here. She’s trying to charge people with the highest possible crime for doing something, and It Is Not Working. She is wrecking DC courts with all her arrests and is wasting a lot of people’s time. I doubt she’ll stop. She likes the fame and the exposure. Well, she should be exposed right back to Fux News,
“The sandwich case was meant to be a show of strength; instead, it is serving as a symbol of the administration’s superficial posturing,” Tesfaye wrote. She added: “With Trump’s installation of shock troops like Pirro to carry out his ideological retribution under the banner of justice, judges and juries are now functioning as the final guardrails in the near-total absence of resistance from the Republican-led legislative branch. Thankfully, over 200 court orders have blocked Trump’s policies, including at least 120 rulings within the first 100 days alone.”
Thankfully, indeed. I can see some pushback coming from the judges, especially with how many people they are missing and how much time it is taking with all her trumped-up charges. The irony is that Trump will never be charged when he should have been. Since he never admits he’s wrong, she’s not going anywhere. So she makes a mess in DC courts and won’t ever get reprimanded for it. Let’s hope the judges get tired of her and start throwing things away. No need to waste more time on them after that.
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To be fair, traveling through life in an alcoholic haze must be tiring.
“Alcoholic haze?” Definitely unproductive!!!
Ironically, Pirro was the first woman elected to serve as DA in Westchester County, New York, and gained recognition for her focus on domestic violence cases, setting up one of the earliest domestic violence units. With that, she ran for and won the county’s DA position in 1993, and served there until 1999. Ironiic in that she has either let her political bias replace her legal expertise, or else forgotten what legal expertise she had before Y2K.