{"id":118675,"date":"2025-05-11T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/11\/trump-taps-judge-jeanine-for-key-doj-role-after-consulting-evening-cable-lineup\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:02:28","slug":"trump-taps-judge-jeanine-for-key-doj-role-after-consulting-evening-cable-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/11\/trump-taps-judge-jeanine-for-key-doj-role-after-consulting-evening-cable-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Taps Judge Jeanine For Key DOJ Role After Consulting Evening Cable Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Martin really went on a journey yesterday. First, he learned that he\u2019d officially be yanked from the DC US Attorney job<\/a> search after a whirlwind four months of pretending he already had the job<\/a>. Then he got spit on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ed Martin is having a tough day. First Trump pulls his nomination for DC US Attorney, now this. pic.twitter.com\/acQ9ISlMy3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then Trump named the hapless hack to head up the administration\u2019s new Weaponization Working Group. In a sense, Ed is already a smashing success \u2014 since politicized harassment of government officials<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>, and random medical journals<\/a> are all down a whopping 100 percent since he left his US Attorney role. Meanwhile, Trump is also putting Martin in charge of deciding who gets pardons, a fitting role for the attorney whose claim to fame was representing January 6 defendants \u2014 up to and including using his interim DOJ role to free his own clients<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But this left Trump with the problem of finding a new interim appointment to run prosecutions in DC, preferably with a chance in hell of getting confirmed. After a deep, serious vetting process involving turning on Fox News yesterday, Trump settled upon Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n

As \u201csurprising\u201d picks go, let\u2019s just say this isn\u2019t like an American Pope.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Pirro eyed the Attorney General role<\/a> \u2014 or at least the Deputy\u2019s seat. Part of the Federalist Society\u2019s move from running the GOP judicial nomination process from the shadows to running it out in the open was the overriding fear that Trump would try to put Pirro on the Supreme Court based upon her qualifications as \u201csomeone who talks about law on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pirro may not land in any of those loftier roles, but the US Attorney gig in DC is not a bad consolation.<\/p>\n

Sure, she\u2019s the sort of former county judge with a lead foot<\/a> \u2014 police claiming they clocked her down 119 on Route 17 (she would plead to 95) \u2014 and a penchant for racking up defamation claims<\/a>. She even managed to get involved in the massive Dominion & Smartmatic cases<\/a> that ended up costing the network a fortune<\/a>. But just because she might struggle to follow the law doesn\u2019t mean she can\u2019t arbitrarily enforce it upon others! <\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Trump Dumps Ed Martin In Favor Of \u2018Shit Sandwich Senate Will Eat\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Trump Taps Judge Jeanine For Key DOJ Role After Consulting Evening Cable Lineup<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed Martin really went on a journey yesterday. First, he learned that he\u2019d officially be yanked from the DC US Attorney job<\/a> search after a whirlwind four months of pretending he already had the job<\/a>. Then he got spit on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n

Ed Martin is having a tough day. First Trump pulls his nomination for DC US Attorney, now this. pic.twitter.com\/acQ9ISlMy3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then Trump named the hapless hack to head up the administration\u2019s new Weaponization Working Group. In a sense, Ed is already a smashing success \u2014 since politicized harassment of government officials<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>, and random medical journals<\/a> are all down a whopping 100 percent since he left his US Attorney role. Meanwhile, Trump is also putting Martin in charge of deciding who gets pardons, a fitting role for the attorney whose claim to fame was representing January 6 defendants \u2014 up to and including using his interim DOJ role to free his own clients<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But this left Trump with the problem of finding a new interim appointment to run prosecutions in DC, preferably with a chance in hell of getting confirmed. After a deep, serious vetting process involving turning on Fox News yesterday, Trump settled upon Jeanine Pirro.<\/p>\n

As \u201csurprising\u201d picks go, let\u2019s just say this isn\u2019t like an American Pope.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Pirro eyed the Attorney General role<\/a> \u2014 or at least the Deputy\u2019s seat. Part of the Federalist Society\u2019s move from running the GOP judicial nomination process from the shadows to running it out in the open was the overriding fear that Trump would try to put Pirro on the Supreme Court based upon her qualifications as \u201csomeone who talks about law on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pirro may not land in any of those loftier roles, but the US Attorney gig in DC is not a bad consolation.<\/p>\n

Sure, she\u2019s the sort of former county judge with a lead foot<\/a> \u2014 police claiming they clocked her down 119 on Route 17 (she would plead to 95) \u2014 and a penchant for racking up defamation claims<\/a>. She even managed to get involved in the massive Dominion & Smartmatic cases<\/a> that ended up costing the network a fortune<\/a>. But just because she might struggle to follow the law doesn\u2019t mean she can\u2019t arbitrarily enforce it upon others! <\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Trump Dumps Ed Martin In Favor Of \u2018Shit Sandwich Senate Will Eat\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed Martin really went on a journey yesterday. First, he learned that he\u2019d officially be yanked from the DC US Attorney job search after a whirlwind four months of pretending he already had the job. Then he got spit on. Ed Martin is having a tough day. First Trump pulls his nomination for DC US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Headshot-300x200-Cws25s.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}