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The Senate on Saturday confirmed Jeanine Pirro, President Donald Trump’s decide to function Washington D.C.’s high prosecutor, as lawmakers failed to achieve a deal to ram by means of dozens of the president’s nominees.
The onetime New York choose and prosecutor and former Fox Information host was one of many over 150 nonetheless excellent nominees on the Senate’s calendar as Senate Republicans work to discover a path ahead to ram by means of Senate Democrats’ blockade of Trump’s nominees, and a part of a slew of picks to get a vote over the weekend. However simply forward of her affirmation vote, the trail to a deal was derailed, and lawmakers opted to ram by means of simply seven of Trump’s nominees earlier than heading house till September.
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Interim US Lawyer Jeanine Pirro speaks throughout a press replace on a taking pictures the evening earlier than, of two Israeli embassy staffers, on the US Division of Justice in Washington, DC, on Could 22, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Pirro, who was confirmed by a 50-45 vote, will function U.S. Lawyer for the District of Columbia, a put up she has held since Could on an interim foundation.
Pirro beforehand served because the District Lawyer in Westchester County, New York, for over a decade. Previous to that, she was on the bench as a choose in Westchester County within the early Nineteen Nineties.
“Jeanine is extremely well-qualified for this place, and is taken into account one of many High District Attorneys within the Historical past of the State of New York,” Trump stated when he nominated Pirro. “She is in a category by herself.”
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President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes the Tremendous Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles NFL soccer staff to the South Garden of the White Home, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Mark Schiefelbein)
She was not Trump’s first decide for the job, nevertheless. His first alternative, Ed Martin, failed to achieve sufficient help amongst Republicans earlier this 12 months. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., successfully tanked Martin’s nomination over considerations about his views on the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill.
And Pirro’s highway to affirmation was not with out its personal hiccups and drama.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 22: U.S. Senate Minority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) speaks throughout a information briefing after the weekly Senate Democratic coverage luncheon on the U.S. Capitol on July 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats held a weekly coverage luncheon to debate the Democratic agenda. (Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Pictures) (Alex Wong )
Senate Democrats have accused her of amplifying Trump’s 2020 election fraud claims and defending him after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot throughout her time as a Fox Information host, and warned that she would do the president’s bidding in her function as Washington D.C.’s high prosecutor.
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Throughout a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to final month, Democrats staged a walkout in protest of each her and U.S. District Choose Emil Bove, who was confirmed earlier this week in a good, 50 to 49 vote. She later superior out of committee on a party-line vote.
“She’s an election denialist, recklessly peddling President Trump’s Large Lie regardless of even her personal Fox Information producers and executives warning her to reel it in,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Sick. and the highest Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee stated of Pirro.
