Jeanine Pirro — the former Fox News firebrand and onetime New York judge — was narrowly confirmed Saturday as Washington DC’s top prosecutor.
The Senate voted 50-45 to approve the former Westchester County prosecutor and elected judge, who stepped in as the acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia in May.
It came despite House Democrats urging the GOP-led Senate to reject President Trump’s handpicked nominee, the former co-host of Fox’s “The Five.”
Pirro, 73, was county prosecutor for 15 years, rising to the level of assistant district attorney, before being elected judge in 1990.
In 1993, she became the first woman elected to Westchester County’s top law-enforcement post, as district attorney.
With Post wires
