US Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as DC top prosecutor

After President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first pick, conservative activist Edward Martin Jr., the US Senate confirmed former Fox News TV personality Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, DC. Pirro will succeed Pirro.

With a vote of 50 to 45 on Saturday, Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed. She co-hosted the Fox News program The Five on weekday nights, where she frequently spoke with Trump, before taking over as acting US attorney for the District of Columbia in May.

After a key Republican senator said he couldn’t support him because of Martin’s outspoken support for rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump yanked Martin’s nomination. Martin is currently the Justice Department’s pardon counsel.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who co-hosted Fox &amp, Friends Weekend, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, a former Fox Business co-host and reality TV show competitor, are other cable news hires.

Democrat Andrew Cuomo defeated Pirro in a failed attempt to run for both the US Senate and New York Attorney General. The latter race was unsuccessful.

She began gaining more attention from 2008 to 2011 by hosting the weekday television program Judge Jeanine Pirro. She co-hosted the network’s show The Five from 2011 until she joined Fox News Channel to host Justice with Judge Jeanine, which ran for 11 years.

Additionally, Pirro co-authored several books, including Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, which was released in 2018. In its support for Trump, The Washington Post described the book as “sycophantic.”

Pirro was named a defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which claimed Fox had broadcast false information about the business after promoting unsupported conspiracy theories alleging election fraud in 2020.

For nearly $800 million, Fox News settled the dispute.

After Democrats left to protest Emil Bove’s nomination as a judge of the federal appeals court, Senate Judiciary Committee members unanimously voted to send Pirro’s nomination to the Senate floor.

Before taking office in January, Pirro, a graduate of Albany Law School from 1975, has much more experience in the courtroom than Martin, who had never tried or prosecuted a case. Before serving three terms as the county’s elected district attorney, she was elected as a judge in 1990 in Westchester County Court, New York.