Thursday, August 21, 2025
PMT: The Maximalist
Washington DC's US Attorney is Fox News stalwart Jeanine Pirro, has announced that her office will limit plea agreements to lesser charges for street crimes.
It should be noted that Pirro has significant experience as both a line prosecutor and an elected DA (in Westchester County NY), so she knows where this leads. If prosecutors don't offer good deals, more people go to trial. That stresses the system as a whole, but the prosecutors most of all. It's an edict that is often made but not as often carried out over the long term.
There has been a remarkable loss of talent within the DOJ, as career prosecutors and managers retire en masse. That means that the crush of cases will fall largely on new hires.
And, dear reader, that will not be a very good job. Too many trials, too many cases, too little experience... it's a bad bad bad combination.
But, time will tell how this plays out.
