Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host tapped as President Donald Trump's acting federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is thoroughly disqualified by her involvement in promoting conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary McCord told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday.

This comes as voting equipment company Smartmatic released private communications of Fox News officials in their defamation suit against the network, revealing among other things that Pirro bragged to the then-Republican National Committee chair that she "worked so hard for" Trump while platforming false claims about the election, even as she privately admitted there was no evidence of any vote tampering.

In their "Main Justice" podcast on Tuesday, former Justice Department officials Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann noted that the judges overseeing Jan. 6 cases aren't going quietly since Donald Trump issued pardons to many of those convicted.

McCord said that the interim Washington, D.C. district attorney who has taken over under Donald Trump's presidency is demanding that cases not yet to be heard now be dismissed.

Donald Trump's attorney general – Pam Bondi, if she's confirmed – will report for duty with a pile of work stacking up on her desk.

The newly elected president has signed a blizzard of executive orders since he was sworn in Monday afternoon, and a common theme has emerged over and over tasking his Justice Department with investigating and enforcing his personal policy wishes, reported the Washington Post.

President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to pardon the violent criminals who attacked the United States Capitol on his behalf on January 6th, 2021, and Bloomberg reports that this is causing real concern among many legal experts about the safety of various people involved in their trials.

Louis Manzo, a former Justice Department lawyer who helped prosecute members of the Oath Keepers militia, tells Bloomberg that he is worried about pardoned MAGA rioters posing what Bloomberg describes as "immediate fears for safety" of judges, lawyers, and witnesses who put them behind bars.

Mary McCord, a former acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, walked through the knock-on impact she says the recent U.S. Supreme Court presidential immunity decision will have on Congress.

Writing for Just Security on Tuesday, McCord said that while attention has been paid to the power the ruling — which states presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for official actions carried out while in office — gives to Trump, it also has grave consequences for the other branches of the U.S. government.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity — and it came with plenty of biting comments.

Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) began the hearing by noting that a number of the witnesses quoted the line, "When the president does it, it's not illegal" — a quote from an interview former President Richard Nixon did with David Frost after he was pardoned.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) drew a sharp rebuke on Tuesday when he compared Donald Trump's alleged unlawful retention of official documents and attempt to overthrow the election as similar to former President Harry Truman dropping nuclear weapons on Japan during World War II.

While discussing this year's Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, Cruz and other Republicans on the committee raised the potential dangers of allowing a former president to be criminally prosecuted for actions he took while in office.