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

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The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia said she “misspoke” during a rant to Newsmax: She doesn’t really think they’re even “kids.”

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/opinion/pirro-complains-she-cant-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......

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.

In response, the Sentencing Project, a civil rights group focused on incarceration, noted that D.C. laws already afford prosecutors broad latitude to try children as adults. The group noted that, given policing disparities in the district, lowering the age at Pirro’s urging would likely endanger Black children:

DC law currently gives prosecutors more unchecked power than prosecutors in 48 states to send youth to adult court. A vast body of research has established that youth charged as if they are adults are more likely to reoffend than youth processed in the juvenile courts. Changing DC law to send more youth to adult court will result in sending more Black youth, and even younger Black children, to adult court.

Pirro is advocating for a theory of law that portrays children as if they’re not actually children — a tactic that’s been deployed by racist law enforcement officials throughout American history. The execution of 14-year-old George Stinney in 1944, via electric chair, is a prime example.

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "What's gotta change is we have to lower the age of criminal responsibility ... I can't get my hands on these kids. They're not kids. I misspoke."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-01T18:43:29.888Z

Pirro did hit a speed bump during a Newsmax interview on Wednesday in which she acknowledged — correctly but, in her framing, mistakenly — that her effort would target “kids.” The U.S. attorney rattled off a list of crimes for which people under 18 can be tried as adults but complained, like a cartoon villain, about laws that prevent her from doing so for 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds for other crimes.

“I can’t get my hands on these kids,” Pirro said, before checking herself. “They’re not kids — I misspoke.”

You should not be trying 14 or 15 year old children as adults. Piro is a sick person

[Deuxcents]

1. She did not misspeak..12 year olds *are* kids.

[dutch777]

2. Likely just red meat tossed to the MAGA base that will never work initially or get reversed on appeal at worst.