{"id":160236,"date":"2026-08-12T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/12\/how-much-misconduct-is-jeanine-pirro-willing-to-do-to-save-her-job\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:26:42","slug":"how-much-misconduct-is-jeanine-pirro-willing-to-do-to-save-her-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/12\/how-much-misconduct-is-jeanine-pirro-willing-to-do-to-save-her-job\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Misconduct Is Jeanine Pirro Willing To Do To Save Her Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeanine Pirro\u2019s tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been a never-ending shitshow debacle<\/a>. From the no bills<\/a> for protesters, to the quashed subpoenas<\/a>, to the doomed effort to indict sitting members of Congress for making factually correct statements of law, she\u2019s failed at every turn. She couldn\u2019t even convict that guy who threw a ham sandwich<\/a> at a CBP thug on camera and then said \u201cI did it. I threw the sandwich.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, when she was forced to tap out on the prosecution of Olympian David Hearn for touching Trump\u2019s mangled Reflecting Pool, it looked like her days might be numbered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Q: Is Pirro safe? Are you going to keep her in her position?TRUMP: Uh, I haven’t made a determination<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-08-05T03:57:41.214Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Smelling blood in the water, the tweakiest <\/a>felon<\/a> at the White House has been screaming for her ouster.<\/p>\n

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White House aide Peter Navarro goes ballistic on White House aide Jeanine Pirro: “Never mention her friggin’ name to me. Because that woman still refuses to fire John Crabb. When the boss said ‘she choked’ \u2026 Jeanine, are you listening?”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-08-10T14:50:36.459Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

And so, in what is surely not a coincidence, the Washington Post<\/a> reports that Pirro has convened a special grand jury to take on the juicy political prosecutions Trump demands. Unlike regular grand juries, which have thus far been cool to Pirro\u2019s advances, special grand juries investigate a particular kind of case, usually one with a political valance. At the end of their service, they are empowered to issue a report, even absent an indictment. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis used a similar vehicle in the election interference case she brought against Trump and his confederates, and Jason Reding Qui\u00f1ones, the US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, is presiding over a similar panel in Fort Pierce as he tries to construct a grand conspiracy case against everyone who crossed Trump for the past decade.<\/p>\n

Qui\u00f1ones managed to park his effort to lock up James Comey, Jack Smith, and the ghost of Robert Mueller in Judge Aileen Cannon\u2019s friendly courtroom. Pirro will have to do the dirty under the auspices of Chief Judge James Boasberg, who has proven himself a lot less friendly. There\u2019s a very real danger that she winds up like Andrew Boutros, the US Attorney in Chicago, who is currently engulfed in scandal after his office was revealed to have engaged in massive prosecutorial misconduct in the \u201cBroadview 6\u201d case. <\/p>\n

Luckily, Pirro has put an experienced federal prosecutor on the job.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kidding.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pirro put her crony Steven Vandervelden in charge. Vandervelden worked for Pirro in the 90s as a local prosecutor in Westchester County and then retired to run a dance photography studio<\/a>. Pirro brought him back on last year, and he\u2019s led some of the more ignominious prosecutions<\/a> of her tenure, including the no bill of the sitting members of Congress and the subpoena for the Federal Reserve that got quashed<\/a> by Judge Boasberg for being illegitimate and pretextual.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s all in the past. Now that Vandervelden\u2019s got his sea legs under him, it will all be smooth sailing. So look out Anthony Fauci! Watch your back Jack Smith! Pirro and the boys are on the case.<\/p>\n

Pirro, in rare move, convenes special grand jury in Washington<\/a> [WaPo]<\/p>\n

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Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0substack<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The post How Much Misconduct Is Jeanine Pirro Willing To Do To Save Her Job?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jeanine Pirro\u2019s tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been a never-ending shitshow debacle<\/a>. From the no bills<\/a> for protesters, to the quashed subpoenas<\/a>, to the doomed effort to indict sitting members of Congress for making factually correct statements of law, she\u2019s failed at every turn. She couldn\u2019t even convict that guy who threw a ham sandwich<\/a> at a CBP thug on camera and then said \u201cI did it. I threw the sandwich.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, when she was forced to tap out on the prosecution of Olympian David Hearn for touching Trump\u2019s mangled Reflecting Pool, it looked like her days might be numbered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Q: Is Pirro safe? Are you going to keep her in her position?TRUMP: Uh, I haven’t made a determination<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-08-05T03:57:41.214Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Smelling blood in the water, the tweakiest <\/a>felon<\/a> at the White House has been screaming for her ouster.<\/p>\n

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White House aide Peter Navarro goes ballistic on White House aide Jeanine Pirro: “Never mention her friggin’ name to me. Because that woman still refuses to fire John Crabb. When the boss said ‘she choked’ \u2026 Jeanine, are you listening?”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> 2026-08-10T14:50:36.459Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

And so, in what is surely not a coincidence, the Washington Post<\/a> reports that Pirro has convened a special grand jury to take on the juicy political prosecutions Trump demands. Unlike regular grand juries, which have thus far been cool to Pirro\u2019s advances, special grand juries investigate a particular kind of case, usually one with a political valance. At the end of their service, they are empowered to issue a report, even absent an indictment. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis used a similar vehicle in the election interference case she brought against Trump and his confederates, and Jason Reding Qui\u00f1ones, the US Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, is presiding over a similar panel in Fort Pierce as he tries to construct a grand conspiracy case against everyone who crossed Trump for the past decade.<\/p>\n

Qui\u00f1ones managed to park his effort to lock up James Comey, Jack Smith, and the ghost of Robert Mueller in Judge Aileen Cannon\u2019s friendly courtroom. Pirro will have to do the dirty under the auspices of Chief Judge James Boasberg, who has proven himself a lot less friendly. There\u2019s a very real danger that she winds up like Andrew Boutros, the US Attorney in Chicago, who is currently engulfed in scandal after his office was revealed to have engaged in massive prosecutorial misconduct in the \u201cBroadview 6\u201d case. <\/p>\n

Luckily, Pirro has put an experienced federal prosecutor on the job.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kidding.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pirro put her crony Steven Vandervelden in charge. Vandervelden worked for Pirro in the 90s as a local prosecutor in Westchester County and then retired to run a dance photography studio<\/a>. Pirro brought him back on last year, and he\u2019s led some of the more ignominious prosecutions<\/a> of her tenure, including the no bill of the sitting members of Congress and the subpoena for the Federal Reserve that got quashed<\/a> by Judge Boasberg for being illegitimate and pretextual.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s all in the past. Now that Vandervelden\u2019s got his sea legs under him, it will all be smooth sailing. So look out Anthony Fauci! Watch your back Jack Smith! Pirro and the boys are on the case.<\/p>\n

Pirro, in rare move, convenes special grand jury in Washington<\/a> [WaPo]<\/p>\n

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Liz Dye<\/a>\u00a0lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos\u00a0substack<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Jeanine Pirro\u2019s tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been a never-ending shitshow debacle. From the no bills for protesters, to the quashed subpoenas, to the doomed effort to indict sitting members of Congress for making factually correct statements of law, she\u2019s failed at every turn. She couldn\u2019t even convict that guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-160236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160236","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=160236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}