U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Sunday appeared to abandon a plan to appeal an adverse ruling in her attempts to criminally investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Pirro has long said she planned to ask a higher court to review recent rulings by Chief Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia quashing her subpoenas to the Fed. She has argued that the judge’s decision makes it difficult for her to conduct grand jury investigations in general. Her appeal was due by Monday.
Pirro appeared to change tack in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We’re going to make a motion to vacate the order of Judge Boasberg, because we think it’s extremely important for us as prosecutors, the precedent that it sets to prevent us from going into a grand jury,” Pirro said.
The appeal would have sought to reinstate Pirro’s legal demand that the Fed hand over evidence related to cost overruns in its building renovations. By shifting to a different legal strategy, Pirro seems to be dropping that demand.
