Jeanine Pirro has gone from district judge to TV judge to Fox News host to U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Could U.S. attorney general be the next addition to her résumé? Paula Reid, CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent, thinks so.
Reid offered the speculation on Friday after Pirro gave an impassioned press conference following U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s ruling to block a grand jury’s subpoenas to the Federal Reserve in an investigation of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
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