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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Jeanine Pirro drunk?
She is at the podium right now. I am watching MSNOW...but she is also on CNN.
She is pissed that Boasberg blocked the subpoenas they (DC US Atty) were trying to impose on Fed Chair Powell.
She was incredibly angry in her speech. She is being nasty to reporters.
And btw, the Judge told them not to appeal. She said we're appealing.
She is calling Boasberg an activist Judge.
Coventina
(29,640 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,303 posts)SocialDemocrat61
(7,509 posts)😉
moniss
(9,011 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,766 posts)underpants
(196,209 posts)Link to tweet
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yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)We're on a roll.
ultralite001
(2,527 posts)I can do what I want... You cannot STOP ME... Legally or otherwise...
+ her phone keeps going off...
Cut it out, Jeannine...
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)New nickname - Jeanine Itsfiveoclocksomewhere Pirro.
BlueKota
(5,289 posts)Throwing tantrums and threatening to hold their breath until their faces turns blue. 🤦♀️
ultralite001
(2,527 posts)for handling brats holding their breath "'til they turn blue"...
Pinch their nose shut...
They'll breathe at some point...
BlueKota
(5,289 posts)ultralite001
(2,527 posts)TIA...
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)Basically Judge Boasberg said - you can't use subpoenas to harass someone.
Boomerproud
(9,268 posts)They're out of control.
gulliver
(13,935 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,305 posts)That's the more reasonable question.
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)malaise
(295,479 posts)She is also insane 😀
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)Being insane is a prerequisite to a job in the take over.
Being drunk is not...but is a good dovetail.
MustLoveBeagles
(16,004 posts)Initech
(108,580 posts)progressoid
(53,107 posts)
Initech
(108,580 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,427 posts)Trump has assembled such a stable of unfit (presumably-previous) substance abusers, it anybody's call.
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)And yet - he finds them all.
I might have met a few over the years. But he has assembled a couple of platoons of the most insane, most unfit, most delusional.
allegorical oracle
(6,427 posts)Tidal Basin (near the Jefferson Monument) with a stripper named Fanny Foxx could end your career. Now, it's sheer corruption -- buy stock and start a war to increase that stock's value. So much more sophisticated.
moniss
(9,011 posts)Wilbur Daigh Mills and the "performance artist" known as Fanne Foxe. To be fair "Fanne" did go on about 10 years later to go to college and do quite well with a Master's in Marine Science and also a degree in Business Administration.
Wilbur did alright too at a big shot law firm.
Here's a pic of Wilbur and Fanne in their "prime".

fujiyamasan
(1,623 posts)That right there answers your question.
allegorical oracle
(6,427 posts)fujiyamasan
(1,623 posts)How this administration is actually filled with a bunch of drunks from Fox News.
They really put together the idiocracy cabinet.
Celerity
(54,254 posts)
milestogo
(23,002 posts)Those are her qualifications.
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)spanone
(141,422 posts)Blues Heron
(8,742 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)Blues Heron
(8,742 posts)RockRaven
(19,208 posts)mr715
(3,453 posts)Her liver turns water into Pinot.
If she were a little more decent, she'd be performing Jesus-like miracles.
niyad
(131,927 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)mr715
(3,453 posts)She gives her grandkids boxed wine juice boxes.
She's made of an oaky cabernet.
She's just a little too oxidized for civil society.
mr715
(3,453 posts)She is a medical marvel. I want her to cater my parties.
Marcuse
(8,968 posts)
littlemissmartypants
(32,999 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,999 posts)yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)littlemissmartypants
(32,999 posts)moniss
(9,011 posts)uncomfortable bar stools known to mankind.
generalbetrayus
(1,800 posts)Not that Kegsbreath has likely ever stopped drinking.
allegorical oracle
(6,427 posts)usedtobedemgurl
(2,019 posts)Fixed it for you. There is a reason "she" always has a glass of wine in the SNL skits.
moniss
(9,011 posts)maybe they end up finding and raiding each others "little secrets".
Bengus81
(10,126 posts)evolves
(5,829 posts)NOT drunk?
yourout
(8,795 posts)Scrivener7
(59,354 posts)RussBLib
(10,587 posts)...didn't hear any slurring or stumbling.
I understand Judge Boasberg was appointed by Bush I, then elevated to his present spot by Obama.
And I think I heard recently that this whole "$1 billion cost overrun" bullshit was totally made-up by Trump just to try and pressure Powell. Talk about weaponizing the Justice Department.
https://russblib.blogspot.com
surrealAmerican
(11,856 posts)... and multiply that by two.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,047 posts)Pirro lost it during this press conference. I also believe that Piro may have been a little drunk
Jeanine Pirro, United States attorney for the District of Columbia, lost her temper after a reporter confronted her over her low conviction rate in the district.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-13T20:21:03.850Z
https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-conviction-rate/
At a press conference on Friday, Pirro unloaded angry remarks at U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg after he quashed two subpoenas because he said they were designed to force the Fed to cut interest rates, a public demand of President Donald Trump.
One reporter asked Pirro about her historically low conviction rate following her remarks.
"Oh, cut it out," the U.S. attorney snapped loudly. "Do you know how many convictions we've got? Cut it out? We have cleaned up this city."
"You're historic," the reporter noted....
"That's what's historic! I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill because I'll take all the crimes and put them in."
SheltieLover
(79,838 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,183 posts)onenote
(46,124 posts)With respect to the decision on the motion to quash, it is silent with respect to the government appealing or not appealing.
With respect to the related decision to unseal the pleadings, the judge expressly stayed the order in order to allow the government to appeal.
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)Interesting. I thought I heard that he told them not to appeal. Maybe I was confusing it with Thom Tillis telling the govt not to appeal because it would hold up the confirmation process of the new Fed Gov.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,047 posts)Piro may be auditioning to replace Bondi
Jeanine Pirro's 'extraordinary temper tantrum' floors CNN legal expert
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-14T00:30:14.661Z
https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-public-temper-tantrum/
Honig described the legal impact after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted the order, agreeing with the Fed that Trump's repeated attacks on Fed chair Jerome Powell indicate the investigation into the Federal Reserve's building renovation was pretextual and politically motivated.
"So first of all, that press conference in itself was extraordinary," Honig said. "Ordinarily, whenever you see a U.S. Attorney call a press conference and address the cameras, it's because there's been an indictment or a conviction or a sentence. I don't think I've ever seen a U.S. attorney or an attorney general call a press conference to complain about a ruling that he or she did not like. That was essentially a public temper tantrum."
Honig also fact-checked some of what Pirro said during the unusual press conference.
"You heard Jeanine Pirro say that this judge, Judge Boasberg, is a quote 'activist judge,''" Honig said. "This judge was elevated to the district court by Barack Obama. But before that, he was put on the local D.C. Superior Court by George W. Bush. And in this judge's past, he has actually denied a motion years ago to try to get Donald Trump's tax returns. He ruled in favor of Donald Trump on those tax returns. And then finally, most fundamentally, we just heard Jeanine Pirro complain that the grand jury subpoena is an important tool of prosecutors, which it is. You heard Jeanine Pirro say that the judge 'has taken that tool away from us.' That's not quite right."
yellow dahlia
(5,673 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(179,047 posts)The Republican prosecutors furious response to her latest failure offered fresh evidence that shes ill-suited for the position shes in.
Jeanine Pirro struggles after racking up a series of embarrassing defeats - MS NOW apple.news/AB7QFODUOSku...
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T19:21:34.146Z
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jeanine-pirro-struggles-after-racking-up-a-series-of-embarrassing-defeats
Late Friday, the case, such as it was, unraveled. MS NOW reported:
A federal judge has quashed the Justice Departments subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to a court filing unsealed Friday a major blow to the Trump administrations criminal investigation into the central banks leader.
In a remarkable decision, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that a mountain of evidence suggested that the Government served these subpoenas on the [Federal Reserve] Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning. Boasberg added that federal prosecutors produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime, calling the Trump administrations case so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual.
....Broadly speaking, there are a few elements to consider as the dust settles on the ruling and the White House weighs its future options.
First, the president really ought to be asking himself right now whether it was a smart move to tap a former Fox News host to serve as the top federal prosecutor in the nations capital. Jeanine Pirros failed effort against Powell was humiliating, but it coincided with a similarly humiliating effort to indict Democratic veterans in Congress who advised service members to follow the law, which coincided with a separate failed criminal investigation into Joe Biden.
In fact, Pirros office has lost so many closely watched cases with such regularity that its been challenging to keep up with them.
Second, in an unusual press conference following the apparent demise of her case against Powell, the Republican prosecutor made little effort to claim she had evidence of wrongdoing, but said she wanted to go after the Fed chair anyway, just in case some undetermined crimes might have been committed......
As the press conference started to wrap up, Pirro was asked about the frequency of federal grand juries rejecting her efforts. Her furious response offered fresh evidence that shes ill-suited for the position shes in.
Pirro: CUT IT OUT!!! Iâll tell you whatâs historic! I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a not true bill. Because I'll take all the crimes and put them in
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-03-13T19:56:17.573Z
Finally, theres the road ahead. Given the circumstances, theres a silver lining for the White House to the rejection of the baseless case against Powell: The sooner this case goes away, the easier it will be for Senate Republicans to move forward with Kevin Warshs nomination to succeed Powell. All Pirro had to do was accept Fridays outcome, scrap plans for an appeal and move on to other priorities.
The prosecutor instead signaled plans for the opposite path, which dovetailed with the president publishing a hysterical tirade to his social media platform, condemning Boasberg and accusing Powell of wrongdoing in the vaguest ways possible.