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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,710 posts) Tue Aug 26, 2025, 03:51 PM Aug 26

Turns out this Fox News hack isn't too good at being a US attorney

Former Fox News pundit and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is not exactly covering herself in glory as she enables the Trump administration’s takeover of the nation’s capital, and judges and juries are making sure she knows it.

Did you know that federal magistrate judges do not like it when one of Donald Trump’s alphabet soup of goons decides that they have probable cause to search someone for being Black and carrying a heavy backpack? Well, more to the point: Did Pirro know that federal magistrate judges do not like it when one of Trump’s alphabet soup of goons decides that they have probable cause to search someone for being Black and carrying a heavy backpack? Because she does now!

In dismissing charges Pirro’s office had brought against Torez Riley, who literally was searched for the crime of being Black and backpacked, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said, "It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life. I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."

Pirro pushed for the charges against Riley, fighting with her own subordinates about a charge that typically would have been dropped because the search violated the Fourth Amendment. According to news reports, Pirro finally agreed to move to dismiss the charges last Friday after being shown body camera footage of Riley’s arrests. Cool cool cool that she pushed for the heightened charges before actually seeing what happened.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/26/2340311/-Turns-out-this-Fox-News-hack-isn-t-too-good-at-being-a-US-attorney

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Turns out this Fox News hack isn't too good at being a US attorney (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 26 OP

But look at it from her side. Turbineguy Aug 26 #1

Deadline: Legal Blog-Jeanine Pirro's office fails three times to convince grand jurors to return indictment LetMyPeopleVote Aug 26 #2

Oh, Jennie! sheshe2 Aug 26 #4

Pirro is so stupid & drunk she can't even make a ham sandwich. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 26 #6

This is a political prosecution Kenneth Almquist Aug 26 #7

A good prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich. Midnight Writer Aug 26 #3

Oh my! 🤣 sheshe2 Aug 26 #5

Turbineguy

(39,350 posts)

1. But look at it from her side.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 03:54 PM

Aug 26

She gets to eat trumps shit from a diaper.

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,845 posts)

2. Deadline: Legal Blog-Jeanine Pirro's office fails three times to convince grand jurors to return indictment

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:05 PM

Aug 26

Prosecutors in the capital failed a shocking three times to secure an indictment in a case of an alleged assault against a federal agent.

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Jeanine Pirroâ€™s office fails three times to convince grand jurors to return indictment www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
— Tabby (@tabbys-corner.bsky.social) 2025-08-26T16:11:17.595Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/jeanine-pirro-washington-indictment-rcna227190

The bar for securing indictments in criminal cases is relatively low — so low that there’s a saying that prosecutors could indict a ham sandwich. But prosecutors in the nation’s capital have failed a shocking three times to get grand jurors’ approval for a felony case to move forward in an alleged assault against a federal agent.....

The rejection came in the case of Sidney Reid, who prosecutors in Washington alleged last month had “forcefully pushed” an FBI agent’s hand against a cement wall and “caused lacerations” on the agent’s hand during an immigration enforcement protest.....

Monday afternoon came and the government filed not an indictment but a notice to the court. It said not only that “an Indictment has not been returned in this case” but, incredibly, that “a third grand jury returned a no true bill.” A true bill is when the grand jury votes to indict.,.....

It’s worth noting that this is only a preliminary phase of the case, and if it moves forward to trial, prosecutors must prove it to the people of D.C. beyond a reasonable doubt to secure a conviction. There’s a general line of thinking that, however embarrassing it is for a grand jury to return a no true bill, in those rare times that happens, grand jurors have done prosecutors a favor of sorts by keeping a potentially shaky case from a trial jury.

Still, three times might be a sign that the message should’ve been received at least the second time.

But the U.S. Attorney’s Office led by former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro isn’t giving up. Not completely. Though prosecutors are apparently no longer trying to make it a felony case, they filed what’s called an “information” that charges Reid with a misdemeanor assault. That lets them move the case — a hobbled version of it, anyway — forward without grand jury approval.

sheshe2

(93,778 posts)

4. Oh, Jennie!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:41 PM

Aug 26

"You're once, twice, three times a ~~lady~~ loser"

She is going to be out of a job soon.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,419 posts)

6. Pirro is so stupid & drunk she can't even make a ham sandwich. . . . nt

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 05:06 PM

Aug 26

Kenneth Almquist

(10 posts)

7. This is a political prosecution

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:46 PM

Aug 26

The case looked bad when two separate grand juries refused to indict. Jeanine Pirro’s response was to bring the case before a third grand jury, presumably in the hope that the grand jury would screw up. She then indicted on a misdemeanor, which doesn’t require grand jury approval. When three separate grand juries say that this is not a legitimate prosecution, we should believe them.

Midnight Writer

(24,714 posts)

3. A good prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:26 PM

Aug 26

Jeanine Pirro must not be a very good prosecutor.

sheshe2

(93,778 posts)

5. Oh my! 🤣

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 04:43 PM

Aug 26

"Federal magistrate judges do not like it when one of Donald Trump’s alphabet soup of goons "

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