Judge Jeanine “Boxwine” Pirro, U.S. Attorney for D.C., vowed to appeal a ruling from a federal judge who quashed subpoenas in the case against Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the investigation into renovations of Federal Reserve buildings that Trump called Powell’s personal “palace.”
From Boasberg: “A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning, the Government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime; indeed, its justifications are so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual.”
“The case thus asks: Did prosecutors issue those subpoenas for a proper purpose?” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote. “The Court finds that they did not.”
Pirro took to her soapbox and the cameras on a Friday afternoon, big mad that she can’t indict a ham sandwich, nor subpoena a Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
“One of the age-old tools that all prosecutors have to investigate any crime, including cost overruns, is a grand jury subpoena,” she said, but “an activist judge has taken that tool away from us by inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence,” Pirro said. “He has neutered the grand jury’s ability to investigate crime. As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve.”
Ummm….
“No one, folks, is above the law, and this outrageous decision will be appealed by the United States Department of Justice.”
When a reporter asked about Thom Tillis’ vow to block Trump’s Fed nominees over the investigation into Powell, Boxwine threw a hissy.