Republicans advance Fox News vet Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in D.C.
Pirro's record made her a controversial choice to serve as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t care.
🤦â€â™‚ï¸ Republicans advance #Fox #News vet #Jeanine #Pirro to be the top federal #prosecutor in D.C.
— [The Great War & Modern Memory] (@ps9714.bsky.social) 2025-07-17T16:38:08.726Z
Pirro's record made her a controversial choice to serve as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t care.
By @stevebenen.com #MSNBC
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jeanine-pirro-senate-judiciary-committee-advance-vote-rcna219342
Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has moved one step closer to taking on a long-term role as the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., after a Senate committee voted to advance her nomination. ... The vote by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee sets the stage for a vote by the full Senate on Pirro's bid to be the D.C. U.S. attorney.
It's worth emphasizing that the committee vote was technically unanimous, but only because the panel's Democratic members boycotted the process. In fact, the Democratic minority intends to take their concerns to the Senate parliamentarian, though their odds of success aren't great.......
As Media Matters noted, internal Fox communications revealed by court filings also showed that her executive producer described Pirro as a “reckless maniac” who is “nuts,” promotes “conspiracy theories” and “should never be on live television.”
In theory, these details might give senators pause before backing her nomination to serve as of the United States' most important prosecutors. Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rubber-stamped her anyway.
Her nomination now heads to the floor for a final confirmation vote, and unless four GOP senators break ranks, Pirro will almost certainly succeed. If confirmed, my MSNBC colleague Barbara McQuade — a former U.S. attorney and University of Michigan Law School — recently made the case that Trump will use her "as a tool of retribution in our nation’s capital."
Given that Pirro has, among things, endorsed possible criminal investigations into Jan. 6 prosecutors, it's an unsettling prospect.
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