{"id":444,"date":"2026-06-11T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:41:49","slug":"pirros-losses-in-fed-investigation-should-stay-on-the-books-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Pirro&#8217;s losses in Fed investigation should stay on the books, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Washington denied on Thursday a prosecutor&#8217;s request to erase the record of the government&#8217;s legal losses its attempt to investigate former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=442\">Warren questions SpaceX IPO oversight in new letter to stock indexes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Judge James E. Boasberg in the D.C. Circuit&#8217;s scathing order, replete with media quotes and links to YouTube clips, denied a motion by the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to vacate his earlier rulings that had gone against Pirro. <\/p>\n<p>The latest development caps a monthslong legal saga that saw Boasberg halt aspects of an investigation by Pirro into the Fed. Boasberg in March quashed a pair of subpoenas Pirro issued because, he ruled, Pirro&#8217;s effort was intended at least in part to &#8220;harass and pressure Powell&#8221; on behalf of the president, who wanted lower interest rates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump family got about $500M from crypto venture \u2014 but investors saw steep losses<\/li>\n<li>Trump repeats claims that Iran deal is only &#8216;days&#8217; away, despite recent strikes<\/li>\n<li>USDA Secretary Rollins calls Texas ag chief &#8216;unserious&#8217; amid screwworm threat<\/li>\n<li>Trump nominates Todd Blanche for attorney general amid controversy over DOJ fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Pirro in April agreed to close the investigation of Powell under pressure from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Tillis dropped a Senate blockade of the confirmation of Kevin Warsh, Trump&#8217;s nominee to replace Powell as leader of the Fed. Warsh was confirmed in May and will chair his first meeting of the Fed&#8217;s rate-setting committee next week.<\/p>\n<p>Powell stepped down from the Fed chair as required by law but opted to retain his separate seat on the Fed&#8217;s board. He wanted to ensure that the legal threat to the Fed had truly ended, even after Pirro said she had dropped the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Boasberg in a  appeared sympathetic to Powell&#8217;s perspective that the legal threat to the Fed may not truly have ended with Pirro&#8217;s decision to drop the investigation. Pirro said she could reopen the investigation if she chose. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sounds like you&#8217;re going to keep trying to find out more,&#8221; CNN host Jake Tapper said to Pirro in an interview. &#8220;Pirro essentially confirmed that interpretation,&#8221; Boasberg wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=440\">Trump cancels Iran strikes scheduled for Thursday evening<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite prosecutors&#8217; attempts to confine the arguments to the courtroom, Boasberg drew on evidence of what Pirro and President Donald Trump had said in the press. Boasberg&#8217;s orders were simply &#8220;using the President&#8217;s explicit statements as evidence of what his deputies understood that he wanted,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg wrote that Pirro&#8217;s legal rationale in the wake of his decision had &#8220;vacillated,&#8221; first promising to appeal, and then switching to a &#8220;curious&#8221; strategy of asking him to vacate his earlier rulings now that the investigation was over. Boasberg&#8217;s latest order denied that motion to vacate.<\/p>\n<p>Boasberg&#8217;s initial ruling had found that although a prosecutor ought generally to be allowed to issue grand jury subpoenas on minimal suspicion, evidence that those subpoenas might be part of a campaign of political harassment raised the bar for allowing an investigation to proceed. Pirro&#8217;s motion to vacate would undo that ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Government got its way here, then any party that lost a court case could choose to moot the matter, erase an unfavorable decision, and freeze the accumulation and refinement of precedents on which our legal system depends,&#8221; Boasberg wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As judge of a lower-court, Boasberg&#8217;s decisions don&#8217;t necessarily create precedent, he noted. But his &#8220;reasoning still offers a public good from which other parties and judges may draw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fed declined to comment. A spokesman for Pirro didn&#8217;t immediate respond to questions about Boasberg&#8217;s order and whether she might still attempt to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatemovingexpertss.com\/?p=437\">Trump picks former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as national intelligence director<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scathing ruling, Judge James Boasberg denied U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro&#8217;s request to vacate his earlier orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pirro&#039;s losses in Fed investigation should stay on the books, judge rules - 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