Senate confirmed fox News host Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the U.S. capital, filled the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first place, conservative activist Ed Martin Jr.
Former county prosecutor and elected judge Pirro were identified as 50-45. Before becoming an acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia in May, she co-hosted the Fox News show “Five” on weeknights, where she regularly interviewed Trump.
Trump is in a fight Key Republican Senator He said that due to the outspoken thugs who rushed into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he could not support him. Martin is now a pardon attorney for the Justice Department.
In 2021, Voting Technology Company Smart America Prosecuting Fox News, Pirro and others spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company’s defamation lawsuit was filed in a New York state court seeking $2.7 billion from the defendants.
Last month, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to pass the Democrats out of the protest and sent Piro’s nomination to the Senate. Emil Bove’s nomination Become a judge in the Federal Court of Appeal.
Pirro is a 1975 graduate of Albany Law School, and has more court experience than Martin, who had never been a prosecutor or had never been a prosecutor or case before taking office in January. She was elected as a judge in the Westchester County Court of New York in 1990, and has served three terms as the county’s elected district attorney.
In the final minutes of his first term as president, Trump issued a pardon to Piro’s ex-husband, Albert Pirro, who was convicted in 2000 on conspiracy and tax evasion charges.
