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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Judge" Drinky McWineBox shares her fantasy of "14 year olds" being "subject to (her) jurisdiction"
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Pirro: "I would lower the age of accountability. I would lower it -- 14, 15, 16, and 17. I could graduate it in terms of the crime, but I've got to have 16 and 17 year olds subject to my jurisdiction or else the city goes to hell. Wait until this summer. It's only gonna get worse."
Pirro: "I would lower the age of accountability. I would lower it -- 14, 15, 16, and 17. I could graduate it in terms of the crime, but I've got to have 16 and 17 year olds subject to my jurisdiction or else the city goes to hell. Wait until this summer. It's only gonna get worse."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-13T20:14:41.846Z
IbogaProject
(5,980 posts)They want to flip age of consent so they can charge them doen that far to buy silence and cooperation.
Johonny
(26,366 posts)Oh, I believe her, things will keep getting worse.
LetMyPeopleVote
(180,686 posts)The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia said she misspoke during a rant to Newsmax: She doesnt really think theyre even kids.
Link to tweet
https://www.ms.now/opinion/pirro-complains-she-cant-get-her-hands-on-these-kids-in-push-to-try-teens-as-adults
Nonetheless, Pirro has argued for the D.C. council to change local laws to allow her to try children as young as 12 charged with a violent crime in court as an adult.
In response, the Sentencing Project, a civil rights group focused on incarceration, noted that D.C. laws already afford prosecutors broad latitude to try children as adults. The group noted that, given policing disparities in the district, lowering the age at Pirros urging would likely endanger Black children:
DC law currently gives prosecutors more unchecked power than prosecutors in 48 states to send youth to adult court. A vast body of research has established that youth charged as if they are adults are more likely to reoffend than youth processed in the juvenile courts. Changing DC law to send more youth to adult court will result in sending more Black youth, and even younger Black children, to adult court.
Pirro is advocating for a theory of law that portrays children as if theyre not actually children a tactic thats been deployed by racist law enforcement officials throughout American history. The execution of 14-year-old George Stinney in 1944, via electric chair, is a prime example.
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "What's gotta change is we have to lower the age of criminal responsibility ... I can't get my hands on these kids. They're not kids. I misspoke."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-01T18:43:29.888Z
Pirro did hit a speed bump during a Newsmax interview on Wednesday in which she acknowledged correctly but, in her framing, mistakenly that her effort would target kids. The U.S. attorney rattled off a list of crimes for which people under 18 can be tried as adults but complained, like a cartoon villain, about laws that prevent her from doing so for 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds for other crimes.
I cant get my hands on these kids, Pirro said, before checking herself. Theyre not kids I misspoke.
You should not be trying 14 or 15 year old children as adults. Piro is a sick person