Carrie Johnson:
Jeanine Pirro was a prosecutor in New York, but she hasn’t actually prosecuted case for more than 20 years. She’s better known as a FOX News personality.
And in her questionnaire to the Senate, she basically said she was not aware that President Trump had issued pardons to rioters who assaulted police on January 6, 2021. That raised a lot of hackles among Democrats. As for Bove, he’s basically been the right-hand man inside the Justice Department this year at the center of a lot of controversies, from firing January 6 prosecutors, to the decision to walk away from the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to a whistle-blower complaint about the department’s handling or mishandling of immigration and deportation cases.
Bove is on a glide path to confirmation, it seems, with only two Republicans voting against him today in a procedural vote. That means very soon he could have a lifetime-tenured job as a federal appeals court judge.
