Jeanne Pirro is the US attorney for the District of Columbia. She’s…kind of been a trainwreck when it comes to gun rights. We all know it. Sure, she stopped enforcing a couple of laws in the early days, then pretty much keeps putting her foot in her mouth, even when she’s writing.
Last week, while covering Pirro’s office’s request for an en banc review of a decision they’ve said they weren’t even fighting anymore–and it sure sounded like they were fighting it–Cam wondered if Trump could remove her while he’s shaking up the DOJ. Unfortunately, he also noted that her name has come up as a replacement for Pam Bondi as attorney general instead.
My lengthy, well-reasoned response to that news? “Ugh.”
Here’s even more of a reason that Pirro should probably be sent back to television. She seems to just suck at doing her job.
he Trump White House touted its surge of National Guard members to Washington, DC, last summer as the way to put more dangerous perpetrators in the nation’s capital behind bars. But in nearly a dozen criminal cases since the surge began, people who were found to be carrying weapons and charged in federal court have walked free.
The Justice Department has had to drop illegal gun possession cases in recent months after judges on the federal trial-level court in DC have repeatedly found fatal flaws in the cases — largely because the guns were found during unconstitutional police searches.
Several attorneys in Washington say the failed gun possession cases should never have been brought into court because they were weak from the start, and that the cases being charged — sometimes after months of briefings and hearings before they are dismissed — capture a diminished US Attorney’s Office under US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Even with crime declining in Washington, the cases have exposed a problematic aftermath of Trump administration policies, nearly a dozen sources say. Those policies in DC have prompted more policing, more cases charged despite their merits, and the gutting of the experienced career attorneys pool at the Justice Department, according to 10 people connected to the courts in the district, including former DC US Attorney’s Office prosecutors and defense attorneys.
These sources declined to use their names in this story because they still have work related to the US Attorney’s Office.
“That should never happen,” a former prosecutor from the DC US Attorney’s Office told CNN. “The prosecutors should know all the evidence and know how it was obtained. If there’s any vulnerability, they should know that and take that into account.”
Now, this is basic prosecution stuff. Any prosecutor worth their salt knows this stuff. Hell, I know this stuff, and the closest thing to law school I attended was watching The Paper Chase when it was on Showtime back in the 1980s.
While enforcing gun laws when criminals break them isn’t the worst thing in the world for Pirro, the fact that her office is screwing it up so badly isn’t a promising sign.
If that were all she had going against her, it would be easy to dismiss it. After all, she’s on Team Trump, and people will make up stuff to get at Trump and literally any decision he makes. I mean, these are probably some of the same people who screamed for an end to the bombing in Iran, then screamed “TACO” when Trump announced a ceasefire.
But it’s not.
Pirro still has an anti-gun streak that hasn’t gone away because she’s part of the Trump camp. That’s been clear for a while, from her comments after the Alex Pretti shooting to the latest filing on the magazine restriction case that she’s not fighting but still fighting. There’s absolutely no chance that I can see there being zero validity to the argument that she’s prosecuting people for firearm possession-based offenses on illegally obtained evidence.
It’s a waste of taxpayer money to prosecute cases you know you’re going to lose. You only do that if you’re an idiot, you’re trying to make a point, or something else equally stupid that has nothing at all to do with the law.
So yeah, Pirro should probably be given her walking papers, rather than bumped up to the attorney general’s office. Especially when there’s Harmeet Dhillon just sitting there.
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