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Eugene

(67,115 posts)
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 03:32 PM Yesterday

'They've lost the jury pool': Jeanine Pirro's office is struggling to win trials this year

Source: CNN

‘They’ve lost the jury pool’: Jeanine Pirro’s office is struggling to win trials this year

Updated Apr 6, 2026, 12:53 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2026, 6:00 AM ET
By Katelyn Polantz

The DC US attorney’s office under Jeanine Pirro has had an unusually low win rate in trials in Washington’s federal district court this year, at a moment when the White House has been clamoring for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to deliver on prosecutions.

In its first eight criminal trials this year, the DC US attorney’s office has won only half of them — far below the national average.

The dicey record appears to stem from several issues in court, including a jury pool that has lost trust in the Trump administration, the FBI and the Justice Department, according to roughly a dozen people who have interacted with juries in the DC District Court in recent months.

Recent jury trial outcomes and grand jury failures in DC also highlight a persistent problem across the department, where any top prosecutor may have a difficult time in a courthouse because of the president’s public desire to pursue political vendettas.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/06/politics/jeanine-pirro-trials-dc-juries

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'They've lost the jury pool': Jeanine Pirro's office is struggling to win trials this year (Original Post) Eugene Yesterday OP
Oh no. Anyway. ck4829 Yesterday #1
Hire a worthless drunk pfitz59 Yesterday #2
Actual lawyering odins folly Yesterday #3

odins folly

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3. Actual lawyering
Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:30 PM
Yesterday

Means you present a situation that is an actual violation of a law, not just rampant speculation that someone broke a law or what you think is a law when it’s actually not.

Drinky McWinebox has spent the last several years screeching on the TV that all democrats broke made up laws when no such things have occurred.

Much like all the BS about election fraud that has no basis in fact whatsoever.

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