Rachael Rollins’ forced resignation as U.S. Attorney is a stinging embarrassment for both Elizabeth Warren and Eddie Markey.

The state’s two U.S. senators were Rollins’ biggest supporters when President Biden nominated then Suffolk County District Attorney Rollins for the position, despite clear signs that Rollins lacked the temperament for the job.

The Boston Globe described Rollins as a “trailblazer.” In fact, she was a train wreck waiting to happen.

And it happened.

And to rub salt into the wound, it was U.S Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, who set it in motion.

Cotton, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who opposed Rollins’ nomination, followed up on a Boston Herald story that Rollins had violated the Hatch Act by attending a Democrat Party fundraiser in Andover at which First Lady Jill Biden starred.

The Hatch Act prohibits Senate-confirmed appointees in the Department of Justice from engaging in partisan political activity.

She was also accused of sabotage in leaking negative inside information about Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, her successor, to the Boston newspapers to help the candidacy of Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo in the last election.

Rollins lied about the matter when she was later questioned, according to the Justice Department’s Inspector General report.

The report, one of two, said, “The leak was an extraordinary breach of public trust by a senior government official, which threatens to erode confidence in the integrity of federal law enforcement actions.”

Rollins should have known better.

So should have Warren and Markey. Anyone who has been around Massachusetts politics long enough knew that it was only a matter of time before the free-wheeling, often pugnacious Rollins would crash and burn.

She was forever looking for a fight and to throw around the race card. She is the first woman of color appointed as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts.

What Rollins failed to understand is that it is one thing to be an independent elected district attorney who has no boss but the voters. It is another to be a federal appointee who answers to higher-ups in the Justice Department.

“Free-wheeling U.S. Attorney’s do not last long,” we wrote on January 10, 2022, upon her appointment. She lasted for 14 months.

Rollins, who began her political career with a bang, ended it with a whimper.

She will be remembered fondly by progressives, however, as the district attorney who proudly listed 15 crimes she would not prosecute.

These crimes included drug possession and the intent to sell drugs, shoplifting under $250, receiving stolen property, breaking and entering vacant property, trespassing, malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct.

She will also be remembered for attacking the Boston Globe for printing an op-ed column by then Cape and Island District Attorney Michael O’Keefe that held that legislators make laws and prosecutors enforce them.

O’Keefe was also critical of “social justice” district attorneys.

Rollins said the piece was “veiled” racism and the Globe should not have published it.

Then there was the celebrated Christmas Eve 2020 road rage incident at the South Bay Shopping Center when Rollins activated the blue lights and the siren of her state vehicle as she competed with another motorist seeking the exit. The female motorist, feeling threatened, filed a complaint that was, naturally, brushed aside by then-Attorney General Maura Healey.

Later, when a Boston Channel 25 news reporter (a white female) sought to question Rollins about the incident, Rollins launched into a racist, expletive-ridden response and threatened to call the police. Here’s a partial transcript.

“So as a black woman, in this moment in this country you’re going to put my f—–g  house on the screen?”

“No, no, no, ma’am, we’re just here approaching you to ask you a question,” the reporter said.

“Get out of here. You know what I’ll do? I’ll call the police on you and make an allegation — rantings of a white woman. I swear to God, I’m dead serious. I will find your name. I will have you arrested.”

What is amazing is that the Justice Department did not bury this scandal along with all the other Democrat scandals in its political graveyard.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.