Pirro complains she can’t get her ‘hands on these kids’ in push to try teens as adults

Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host Donald Trump tapped as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is fixated on locking up and prosecuting children as if they were adults.

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Pirro is arguably the most prominent face of Trump’s authoritarian quest to “take over” the district, an effort that has involved the deployment of the military and federal law enforcement, which local residents and lawmakers have decried for terrorizing and harassing adults and children alike in the largely Black district. 

For months now, she’s publicly complained about laws forbidding federal prosecutors from treating children as harshly as adults in some cases. “Young people are coddled and they don’t need to be coddled anymore,” she stated last year.

Talk of “coddling” criminals is certainly rich coming from a leader at a Justice Department that has dismissed tens of thousands of cases, in an administration led by someone convicted of a felony who on his first day back in office pardoned throngs of insurrectionists, some of whom have gone on to commit other crimes, including crimes of violence and child sex predation.

Nonetheless, Pirro has argued for the D.C. council to change local laws to allow her to try children as young as 12 charged with a violent crime in court as an adult.