Jeanine Pirro is sworn in as the brand new interim U.S. Lawyer for the District of Columbia throughout a ceremony hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., Could 28, 2025.
Leah Millis | Reuters
The Senate has confirmed former Fox Information host Jeanine Pirro as the highest federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, filling the publish after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first choose, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr.
Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected choose, was confirmed 50-45. Earlier than changing into the performing U.S. Lawyer for the District of Columbia in Could, she co-hosted the Fox Information present “The 5” on weekday evenings, the place she incessantly interviewed Trump.
Trump yanked Martin’s nomination after a key Republican senator mentioned he couldn’t help him as a consequence of Martin’s outspoken help for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Martin now serves because the Justice Division’s pardon legal professional.
In 2021, voting expertise firm Smartmatic USA sued Fox Information, Pirro and others for spreading false claims that the corporate helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The corporate’s libel swimsuit, filed in a New York state court docket, sought $2.7 billion from the defendants.
Final month, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to ship Pirro’s nomination to the Senate ground after Democrats walked out to protest Emil Bove’s nomination to turn out to be a federal appeals court docket choose.
Pirro, a 1975 graduate of Albany Legislation Faculty, has considerably extra courtroom expertise than Martin, who had by no means served as a prosecutor or tried a case earlier than taking workplace in January. She was elected as a choose in New York’s Westchester County Courtroom in 1990 earlier than serving three phrases because the county’s elected district legal professional.
Within the last minutes of his first time period as president, Trump issued a pardon to Pirro’s ex-husband, Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 on conspiracy and tax evasion expenses.