The DC US Attorney isn’t usually the face of the president’s policy agenda. But over the past four months, Jeanine Pirro , the former judge and Fox News host-turned-US Attorney, has become a central character in Donald Trump’s effort to federalize law and order in American cities.

Pirro, the District of Columbia’s top prosecutor, has carried out President Donald Trump’s surge of arrests in the nation’s capital with gusto. Her office is now pushing for harsher charges or time in jail for even low-level offenders. Cases are flooding the courts, with hearings in DC’s local criminal court routinely lasting late into the night and federal prosecutors awakened for new cases.

Though she originally told an associate she took the DC job as a favor to the president, in a wide-ranging phone int

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