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Home Front: Politix
Former Fox host Jeanine Pirro confirmed as DC US Attorney after tense partisan struggle
2025-08-04
[NYPOST] Jeanine Pirro — the former Fox News firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
and onetime New York judge — was confirmed Saturday along party lines as Washington DC's top prosecutor.

The Senate voted 50-45 to approve the former Westchester County prosecutor and elected judge, who stepped in as the acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia in May.

Pirro was confirmed despite House Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
urging the GOP-led Senate to reject President Trump's second hand picked nominee to lead the office, warning that the former co-host of Fox's ''The Five'' would serve as a partisan tool for the White House.

''Over the past decade, Ms. Pirro has consistently demonstrated that her loyalty lies with Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
the person, not with the Constitution or the rule of law,'' Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin
...hanky-headed Congressman-for-life from Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016. Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which pushes (and defines) reason and science. In 2017 the newly-elected Raskin and several other members of the House objected to the certification of the 2016 presidential election because of (muh!) Russia. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump. Raskin was one of seven Democrats appointed to pack the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Before his election to Congress he was just another lefty law professor....
wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 50 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
(D-NY), Courthouse News reported.

Pirro was tapped to serve as the capital's top prosecutor after Senate Republicans balked at the president's first choice, Ed Martin, leading Trump to yank his nomination.
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