All posts tagged "Jeanine Pirro"

A group calling itself "J6ers Were Destroyed by Weaponization" is asking a federal court to force Attorney General Todd Blanche to review and potentially throw out guilty pleas from January 6 defendants — and prosecutors in Jeanine Pirro's U.S. Attorney's office say the entire lawsuit should be tossed out.

The Trump administration has broadly tried to wipe the slate clean for the January 6 rioters, with the president granting them a mass pardon on his first day, and even toying with giving them payouts in a $1.8 billion slush fund — but they may have found one demand for January 6 handouts that goes too far.

The petitioner describes itself only as an unincorporated association of unnamed individuals prosecuted over the Capitol riot, arguing that charging decisions, pretrial detention, and sentencing threats coerced many of them into pleading guilty. The group wants a judge to order Blanche to review every plea tied to two specific federal charges, initiate motions to vacate or withdraw from those pleas, and launch investigations into the prosecutors and government informants involved in the original cases....

Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and four others face a congressional probe into "appalling" prosecutorial misconduct in the Justice Department.

On Wednesday, letters from House Judiciary ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed that U.S. attorneys from five districts, including Pirro, are in the crosshairs of an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct, NOTUS reported.

According to the letter sent to Pirro, Raskin is asking that she "be more forthcoming with Congress about the appalling breakdown of prosecutorial standards and ethics taking place in your jurisdiction."...

The Justice Department's "nakedly political" prosecutions have made it harder to convict criminals, which will hurt the public, a former prosecutor warned.

In a Tuesday Substack article, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman argued that the reprisal prosecutions dominating the headlines, including cases against figures like James Comey and Letitia James, are only one face of what he called "the other side of the DOJ's corruption." The more damaging fallout lands where few are looking, he warned.

Litman pointed to a run of losses in Washington's federal courthouse under D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, whose office has "spent the presumption [of regularity] down to nothing." Jurors now take their seats "already jaundiced" toward a department they no longer trust, so even strong cases are buckling, he warned....

Dr. Peter Navarro unleashed a tirade against U.S. Attorney and Trump ally Jeanine Pirro on Monday.

The Trump trade counselor was talking to right-wing strategist Steve Bannon during a segment of the MAGA influencer's "War Room" show on Real America's Voice. Both men refused to comply with a Jan. 6 committee subpoena and served four-month prison sentences in 2024.

"Do me a favor, Steve, when I'm on camera and you don't want to talk about something like Jeanine Pirro, never mention her friggin' name to me because that woman still refuses..." Navarro said....

President Donald Trump doubled down on claims Friday that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was vandalized and took another swipe at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, he commented more about his accusations.

"Now that people are able to see it up close, they are reporting pure VANDALISM at The Reflecting Pool," Trump wrote. ...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has thrown U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro under the metaphorical bus — suggesting President Donald Trump has every right to fire her.

Blanche was fielding reporters' questions Wednesday about Pirro's decision to drop charges against the Olympian canoeist and three others whom she accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Suddenly, Trump's reputation for axing employees arose....