Judges Smack Down Trump Attack Dog’s ‘Garbage’ Cases
April 9, 2026
The Daily Beast
Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesFederal judges have rejected nearly a dozen cases brought by President Donald Trump’s hand-picked top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., after finding they were based on unconstitutional police stops. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office has decided to prosecute nearly every single arrest from last year’s surge of National Guard members to the nation’s capital, which Trump touted as a way to put dangerous criminals behind bars.
But the Department of Justice has been forced to drop scores of illegal gun possession cases that Pirro’s office should have flagged from the beginning as too weak to prosecute, legal insiders told CNN. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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