Opposite Day In The D.C. USAG’s Office

Pirro: CUT IT OUT!!! I’ll tell you what’s historic! I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a not true bill. Because I'll take all the crimes and put them in pic.twitter.com/BtJOHdeVrO

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 13, 2026

"Innocent until proven guilty” is a constitutional principle, and means that until proven guilty, there are no crimes. Prosecutors have a professional (ethical) responsibility to investigate crimes, not persons. 

That’s where I started, because I’d only seen this clip. But I realized I was over reaching, that I couldn’t quite get there from here. And if I only had that clip, I was right.

Pirro says she's entitled to investigate "even just because I want assurance that the law is not being violated" pic.twitter.com/IYS1fSD67t

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2026

Jeanine Pirro: "This is the anthesis of American justice. Exonerating anyone without an investigation is not how our criminal justice system works." pic.twitter.com/D3HthML47H

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2026

Jeanine Pirro: "The judge 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. This is wrong and it is without legal authority." pic.twitter.com/mGeFXb5TV9

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2026

What Pirro explicitly wants to do is to conduct an investigation and find a crime. The court told her she couldn’t do that. So she throws a temper tantrum.

Innocent until proven guilty means you can’t conduct an investigation without, at minimum, reasonable suspicion. What Pirro is arguing for is guilty until proven innocent, because that’s so much more convenient for prosecutors. No one in this country needs an investigation to prove they didn’t commit a crime, or to be “exonerated without an investigation.”

What she’s arguing for is the very antithesis of how our criminal justice system works. She’s got it precisely backwards.

I really think the D.C. Bar needs to open an ethics investigation into her ability to function as a prosecutor.