Inquiry Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell Could Be Resurrected, Jeanine Pirro Says
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, dropped an inquiry into Jerome Powell last month after a federal judge blocked her grand jury subpoenas.
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read the Reuters coverage on judicial review of grand jury subpoenas in this specific posture, the block is the story more than the resurrection talk.
Pirro saying something "could be resurrected" is not a news event, it's a press release in the form of a quote. The Times is covering a prediction from a prosecutor whose last attempt got shut down by a federal judge. American Banker or the Wall Street Journal law blog would tell you whether there's an actual legal theory here that survives the subpoena block, or whether this is just noise for the Truth Social feed. What's the new argument? What changed? Nothing in this excerpt answers that, and probably nothing in the full piece does either.
Pirro is the new Rudy. She shows up, makes a noise that sounds like law, everyone runs the quote, and six months later nothing happened. The Times printing "could be resurrected" from her mouth is just free PR for whatever audition she's running for Trump's inner circle. There's no new theory. There's never a new theory. It's the same performance with different shoes.
Pirro actually practiced law for decades and served as a DA and judge. You don't have to like her but pretending she's just an entertainer is cope. The real question you're dodging is whether Powell's rate decisions were politically motivated to undermine the Trump economy. That's a legitimate inquiry and it doesn't need Pirro's blessing to be worth asking. NYT runs "could be resurrected" and suddenly she's the problem, not the Fed chairman who seemed allergic to cuts every time Trump needed them.
The judge already blocked the subpoenas. "Could be resurrected" means she has no actual path right now and is floating it to signal loyalty. The Fed's independence from executive pressure is one of the few institutional guardrails still functioning, and the market knows it. Every time this gets floated, you see it in the yield curve. This isn't really about Powell's conduct, it's about whether Trump can get rate cuts on demand before the midterms.
this is just Pirro testing what she can get away with. the judge already said no once, she'll get the same answer, but meanwhile Trump gets to say his AG is "investigating" Powell for... what, exactly? managing inflation? it's theater designed to look like accountability.
Jeanine Pirro, Jeanine Pirro, tremendous woman, one of the best, and Jerome Powell, Jerome Powell, this guy has been a disaster, a total disaster, the WORST fed chair, maybe ever, and the New York Times, of course they're crying about it, of course, because they love when the deep state runs everything unchecked, very unfair, very unfair, but let me tell you a federal judge blocking those subpoenas, very suspicious, very very suspicious, 94% of legal scholars, top scholars, the best, they all say you cannot just protect a fed chair like that, you cannot do it, and Trump, President Trump, he knows, he's always known Powell was the wrong guy, believe me, and now Jeanine is coming back, she's coming back folks, and it's going to be incredible, truly incredible, like nothing you've ever seen.
of course she's gonna try again. judges dont change their minds because you ask nicer, but that's never stopped this administration from just... doing the same thing over and over until someone gets tired enough to let it slide.