Watchdog files bar complaint against Jeanine Pirro over bid to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) - A legal watchdog notes it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A legal watchdog notes it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S.
Article outline
- What happened
- Official response
- The bottom line
Key points
- Tim Lauer, a spokesperson for Pirro's Washington-based office, observed that it's a grand jury's job – not prosecutors' – to decide whether to hand up an indictment.
- "Attempting to weaponize the disciplinary process against prosecutors for doing their jobs amounts to nothing more than a frivolous complaint, " Lauer remarked in an official note.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A legal watchdog notes it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal crimes for appearing in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.
Meanwhile, the Legal Accountability Center's bar complaints, filed in New York and Virginia, claim Pirro and her subordinates, Carlton Davis and Steven Vandervelden, abused their prosecutorial powers to seek "meritless" indictments against President Donald Trump's "perceived political enemies."
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