Plucked straight from Fox News, the face of President Donald Trump’s new law-and-order regime in the nation’s capital has run headlong into a series of high-profile court losses, making it clear that the federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D.C., is little more than theater with essentially no legal foundation. Jeanine Pirro was parachuted into one of the nation’s most consequential prosecutorial roles because of her loyalty, media savvy and ratings, but as D.C.’s U.S. attorney, she is overcommitting and underdelivering.

“We’re going to make the city safe again,” Pirro told WTOP on Aug. 26, while admitting, “I’m kind of inundated in terms of what I’m doing.”

The resulting cascade on the court system has been compounded by Pirro’s push for prosecutors to bring the harshest c

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