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

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