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leaked SNL cold open or real footage of Judge Box o' Wine having a performative meltdown during a news conference? Hard to tell!
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-13T19:42:36.941Z
leaked SNL cold open or real footage of Judge Box o' Wine having a performative meltdown during a news conference? Hard to tell!
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What she was known for on Fox. Performance art. Sen Tillis said he would continue to block the fed nominee if they appeal the judge throwing out her subpoena.
LetMyPeopleVote
(178,878 posts)Pirro is a hack. trump loses yet again

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/fed-chair-jerome-powell-subpoena
The ruling is a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates and urged the Justice Department to investigate the outgoing chair.
US District Judge James Jeb Boasberg wrote in the new opinion that a mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.
On the other side of the scale, the Government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime; indeed, its justifications are so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual, Boasberg said.
progressoid
(53,103 posts)
GenThePerservering
(3,268 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(178,878 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."
ProfessorGAC
(76,543 posts)...an admission of incompetence?
She throws everything in there, then fails to secure indictments or convictions?
It's like she has no idea how any of this stuff works.
LetMyPeopleVote
(178,878 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."