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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 03:03 PM 12 hrs ago

"Crushing rejection!" Jeanine Pirro gets brutal news in court - Brian Tyler Cohen



Legal Breakdown episode 680: Jeanine Pirro freaks out at reporter amid court loss.

The following summary is AI-generated.

Here are the key takeaways from the video:

- Judge Boasberg blocked Janine Pirro's subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, ruling they had no legitimate legal basis and were issued without any evidence of a crime.

- The ruling's core finding was that the subpoenas' "dominant, if not sole, purpose" was to harass and pressure Powell into lowering interest rates or resigning — not to investigate actual criminal conduct.

- Trump's pattern of attacking Powell — calling him a "total loser," "stupid," and "destructive" for years — was cited by the judge as clear evidence of political motivation behind the subpoenas.

- DOJ provided zero evidence of any crime by Powell, even when given a private, ex parte opportunity to submit anything to the judge confidentially.

- Pirro announced two next steps: filing a motion for reconsideration and appealing to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for DC.

- A growing legal precedent is forming against Trump's DOJ, as courts are documenting a pattern of vindictive prosecutions, making future politically motivated cases increasingly harder to pursue successfully.
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"Crushing rejection!" Jeanine Pirro gets brutal news in court - Brian Tyler Cohen (Original Post) TexasTowelie 12 hrs ago OP
Reading anything about this LilElf70 12 hrs ago #1
Jeanine Pirro's 'extraordinary temper tantrum' floors CNN legal expert LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #2
Box wine sales just went up in DC. A whining wineo at her best. usaf-vet 11 hrs ago #3

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. Jeanine Pirro's 'extraordinary temper tantrum' floors CNN legal expert
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 03:50 PM
12 hrs ago

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/

Former federal prosecutor and CNN legal expert Elie Honig reacted Friday to comments from Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who was furious during an impromptu press conference following a major legal blow to the Trump administration.

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."


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