Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host, judge, district attorney, and acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, was advanced by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee toward a full-Senate confirmation in her role in a do-over vote on Thursday after procedural wrangling and disruptive shenanigans from radical leftist Democrats. The committee hearing for Pirro was emblematic of the Democratic strategy to play for time and delay every Trump appointee, employing every congressional loophole to stymie and stall the momentum of the GOP.
Pirro, a prominent early voice in the America-First movement, was tapped by the Trump administration to serve as acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., and was nominated to hold the role early in Trump’s second administration. However, owing to several disruptions in the confirmation process, including a complete Democrat boycott that left the committee without a quorum, the final vote was delayed.
Just one day before, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made a revealing post to X on his strategy: "...Democrats aren’t letting up. We’re introducing amendment after amendment to fight the Trump-MAGA-Senate Republican cuts..."
According to Bloomberg Law, Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asserted that Pirro was favorably reported on July 17th, following the Democrats' walkout in response to the circuit court nomination of Justice Department official Emil Bove. Despite a unanimous Republican vote, the Democratic minority challenged the process as illegitimate through the Senate Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, a Democrat appointee who has consistently ruled against Republicans since the beginning of the second Trump administration, and the vote was rescheduled for Thursday.
Committee spokeswoman Clare Slattery said in a statement, “After consultation with the Senate Parliamentarian, the Senate Judiciary Committee relisted last week’s U.S. Attorney nominees and looks forward to reporting them out of committee this Thursday.”
“As chairman, I try to be fair to all members of the committee even during controversial nominations, and we have plenty of them and have had plenty of them,” Grassley said, according to Spectrum News. Several other votes were conducted as a bloc by voice vote at the start of the proceedings, including U.S. Attorney nominees Kurt Alme in Montana, Nicholas Chase in North Dakota, Lesley Murphy in Nebraska, Daniel Rosen in Minnesota, Erik Siebert for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Kurt Wall for the Middle District of Louisiana.
As reported by Politico, the proceedings were repeatedly disrupted by activists who shouted about a lack of representation for Washington, D.C. residents.
Another activist interrupted, shouting about Pirro: “She’s unqualified. Disqualified. Scandalous. Questionable accountability. And a liar.”
Capitol Police subsequently removed the disruptive activists.
Judiciary ranking member Dick Durbin (D-IL) claimed Pirro would “prioritize President Trump’s MAGA agenda, not the rule of law, nor the Constitution,” and there were performative antics from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who called Pirro’s nomination “yet another deep insult to the dignity and the decency of Washington, D.C.”
Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, one of the most vehemently anti-Trump voices in the Senate, claimed that Pirro “does not have the professional qualifications or the prosecutorial ethics to serve as a U.S. Attorney for DC. She seems to have no concept of ethics at all.” Commenters on X were fast to note that Pirro’s extensive academic and real-world prosecutorial and judiciary career would seem to outstrip Hirono’s, who practiced law for approximately two years before becoming a career politician in 1980.
Embattled Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) criticized Pirro in the context of her career with Fox News, claiming “Even Fox thought [Pirro] was crazy, nuts, couldn’t be trusted on live television.”
The vote was conducted, and Pirro advanced 12-10 in a party-line fashion, despite disruptions and objections from committee Democrats. Pirro’s nomination will be considered by the full Senate, where she is expected to be confirmed with little incident, unless four Republicans vote against it.
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