Is Jeanine Pirro drunk?

[yellow dahlia]

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]

1. Is the Pope Catholic?

[displacedvermoter]

13. Or American?

[SocialDemocrat61]

33. And love deep dish pizza?

😉

[moniss]

46. Chicago deep dish? nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

78. Does the South Sider Pope love the Chicago White Sox?

[AZLD4Candidate]

2. Do fish swim? Water wet? Sun rises in the east everyday?

[underpants]

6. Fish? Swim? Water?

Link to tweet

?s=46

[yellow dahlia]

10. Boxed rose' - perfect.

[yellow dahlia]

8. Bear shit in the woods?

We're on a roll.

[Marcuse]

73. No doubt Trump has shat in the woods (and irons).

[yellow dahlia]

74. There ya go.

[ultralite001]

3. Pirro's ranting like the other Krasnov minions...

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. And pounding her fists on the podium....you can't make me.

New nickname - Jeanine Itsfiveoclocksomewhere Pirro.

[BlueKota]

31. His whole administration reminds me of bunch of bratty kids.

Throwing tantrums and threatening to hold their breath until their faces turns blue. 🤦‍♀️

[ultralite001]

58. A trick I learned in the ER...

for handling brats holding their breath "'til they turn blue"...

Pinch their nose shut...

They'll breathe at some point...

[BlueKota]

61. I'd love to see someone do that to the administration brats.

[ultralite001]

57. 100%

TIA...

[yellow dahlia]

4. Lisa Rubin is now explaining the judge's opinion, on MS NOW.

Basically Judge Boasberg said - you can't use subpoenas to harass someone.

[Boomerproud]

59. They did it to Bill and Hillary Clinton and too many others to name.

They're out of control.

[gulliver]

7. Hope someone is calling Cecily Strong...nt

[yellow dahlia]

12. Indeed. The cold openings write themselves.

[greatauntoftriplets]

80. I miss her a lot on SNL.

She did a great Pirro.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Is she ever sober?

That's the more reasonable question.

[yellow dahlia]

11. You're right.

[malaise]

14. How would we know

She is also insane 😀

[yellow dahlia]

15. Excellent point, m.

Being insane is a prerequisite to a job in the take over.

Being drunk is not...but is a good dovetail.

[MustLoveBeagles]

16. When isn't she?

[Initech]

17. Alcohol abuse seems to be a common factor with MAGA worshippers.

[progressoid]

39. Go ahead and judge me...

[Initech]

56. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[allegorical oracle]

18. Difficult to tell. Her animation of innocence, as well as djt"s, is like Hegseth's. Truth be,

Trump has assembled such a stable of unfit (presumably-previous) substance abusers, it anybody's call.

[yellow dahlia]

20. I haven't known this many deranged incompetent weirdos in my seven centuries on this planet.

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]

23. So true. Can recall how missteps such as getting drunk and falling into the

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]

55. You win the internet today for the mention of the great philanderer

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]

19. Is she awake?

That right there answers your question.

[allegorical oracle]

25. You forgot one: She'd kill herself before disagreeing with djt. nt

[fujiyamasan]

35. Isn't it incredible

How this administration is actually filled with a bunch of drunks from Fox News.

They really put together the idiocracy cabinet.

[Celerity]

21. ...

[milestogo]

22. She is angry, nasty, and often drunk.

Those are her qualifications.

[yellow dahlia]

26. It must be nice to get a job that matches your skill sets.

[spanone]

24. Normally.

[Blues Heron]

27. She should drink more

[yellow dahlia]

30. ...and sleep through the day?

[Blues Heron]

40. Exactly!

[RockRaven]

28. Evergreen question with an evergreen (affirmative) answer.

[mr715]

29. Yes...?

Her liver turns water into Pinot.

If she were a little more decent, she'd be performing Jesus-like miracles.

[niyad]

32. Is she ever not?

[yellow dahlia]

34. That seems to be the question of the day.

[mr715]

37. Oh come on, it isn't a question.

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]

36. No she is never not.

She is a medical marvel. I want her to cater my parties.

[Marcuse]

38. She can not pass the bar.

[littlemissmartypants]

43. DUzy! 🏅🏆

[yellow dahlia]

45. I like DUzy - great. Can I steal it for future use?

[littlemissmartypants]

63. Certainly! ❤️

[yellow dahlia]

64. Thanks!

[littlemissmartypants]

66. 💐

[moniss]

48. For what it's worth those are the crappiest, most

uncomfortable bar stools known to mankind.

[generalbetrayus]

41. Hey, give her a break - she's drinking for TWO now!

Not that Kegsbreath has likely ever stopped drinking.

[allegorical oracle]

42. Phew. Thought of the other meaning "for two." nt

[usedtobedemgurl]

44. "When isn't Jeanne Pirro drunk?"

Fixed it for you. There is a reason "she" always has a glass of wine in the SNL skits.

[moniss]

47. I wonder if she and "Last Call" Hegseth hide booze around their buildings where their offices are and

maybe they end up finding and raiding each others "little secrets".

[Bengus81]

50. Does Trump shit his diaper?

[evolves]

49. Is she ever

NOT drunk?

[yourout]

51. Is the Pope Catholic?

[Scrivener7]

52. Yup.

[RussBLib]

53. she seemed quite lucid to me

...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]

54. Just think how drunk you would need to be to spout such nonsense ...

... and multiply that by two.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. 'Cut it out!' Jeanine Pirro comes unglued over questions about low conviction rates

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/

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.

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]

62. Is she ever sober?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

65. When has she ever been sober?

[onenote]

67. I've read the decision. It's great. But I don't see the judge telling the government not to appeal.

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]

68. Thanks for the follow up after having read the decision.

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]

69. Jeanine Pirro's 'extraordinary temper tantrum' floors CNN legal expert

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."

[yellow dahlia]

70. Auditioning for Bondi's job - of course.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

71. MaddowBlog-Jeanine Pirro struggles after racking up a series of embarrassing defeats

The Republican prosecutor’s furious response to her latest failure offered fresh evidence that she’s ill-suited for the position she’s 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

The pushback to the investigation was swift, broad and bipartisan, with several congressional Republicans agreeing that it was a mistake to pursue the Fed chair with trumped-up charges.

Late Friday, the case, such as it was, unraveled. MS NOW reported:

A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to a court filing unsealed Friday — a major blow to the Trump administration’s criminal investigation into the central bank’s 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 administration’s 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 nation’s capital. Jeanine Pirro’s 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, Pirro’s office has lost so many closely watched cases with such regularity that it’s 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 she’s ill-suited for the position she’s in.

Pirro: CUT IT OUT!!! I’ll tell you what’s 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, there’s the road ahead. Given the circumstances, there’s 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 Warsh’s nomination to succeed Powell. All Pirro had to do was accept Friday’s 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.

[yellow dahlia]

72. Thanks for more valuable information sharing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

75. MS NOW- Why Judge Boasberg's ruling on DOJ's Jerome Powell investigation is bigger than one case

The judge treated Trump’s own words as evidence of motive — and may signal a broader judicial willingness to scrutinize politicized legal process.

Why Judge Boasberg’s ruling on DOJ’s Jerome Powell investigation is bigger than one case www.ms.now/opinion/judg...

— Skeptical Brotha 🏳️‍🌈 (@skepticalbrotha.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T00:52:58.247Z

https://www.ms.now/opinion/judge-boasberg-jerome-powell-doj-subpoena-fed-chair

The most important part of Chief Judge James Boasberg’s ruling quashing Justice Department subpoenas served on the Federal Reserve was not simply that he blocked them.

It was that he refused to suspend common sense. He read the subpoenas against the public record that produced them. He took President Donald Trump at his word. That is what made the opinion so important.

Judge Boasberg did not begin with dry procedural throat-clearing. He began with Trump’s own attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the broader campaign of presidential and White House pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

He quoted Trump calling Powell “TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job of Fed Chair.” He cited another post calling Powell “one of the dumbest, and most destructive, people in Government.” He noted Trump’s statement that “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!” and his threat that if the Fed did not cut rates, “I may have to force something.”....

Judge Boasberg wrote that there was “abundant evidence” that the dominant, if not sole, purpose of the subpoenas was to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the president or resign and make way for someone who would. On the other side of the scale, he said the government had offered “no evidence whatsoever” that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the president. By the end of the opinion, that judgment hardened even further: The government had produced “essentially zero evidence” of criminality, and its stated justifications looked like “a convenient pretext” for another unstated purpose......

When a president has repeatedly identified the official he wants pressured or removed, made his desired outcome unmistakable and then his Justice Department shows up with a paper-thin theory aimed at that same target, a court does not have to pretend those events are unrelated. Judge Boasberg’s opinion suggested that at least some courts may be losing patience with that formalism.

What made the opinion important was not just that Judge Boasberg drew that inference here. It was that he did so openly, in a way that may signal a broader judicial willingness to read executive motive more realistically in politically saturated cases.

That is not judicial activism. It is common sense......

When a president has repeatedly identified the official he wants pressured or removed, made his desired outcome unmistakable and then his Justice Department shows up with a paper-thin theory aimed at that same target, a court does not have to pretend those events are unrelated. Judge Boasberg’s opinion suggested that at least some courts may be losing patience with that formalism.

What made the opinion important was not just that Judge Boasberg drew that inference here. It was that he did so openly, in a way that may signal a broader judicial willingness to read executive motive more realistically in politically saturated cases.

That is not judicial activism. It is common sense.

Several courts have suspended the presumption of regularity with respect to lawsuits brought by the DOJ. See https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221015053 and https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221027542 The presumption of regularity is the concept that the courts will presume that lawyers representing the DOJ/government are acting in good faith and are telling the truth. A good number of courts have rejected this presumption. The ruling by Judge Boasberg is an extension of the rejection of the presumption of regularity. Now courts are no longer required to assume that the DOJ/government are acting in the ordinary course of business and that the courts can rely on the truth of the facts asserted but now the court can look at the statements of trump to ascertain the true motives.

[NoMoreRepugs]

76. When is she not shitfaced???

[walkingman]

77. Typical Republican....I see on a daily basis here in Texas.

[C_U_L8R]

79. Water is wet and Pirro ain't dry.

These trumplickers sure make fools of themselves.

[Hassler]

81. The better question is whether she is ever sober.