The U.S. Senate confirmed former Fox News host and longtime Trump ally Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in a 50-45 vote late Saturday, with every Democrat present voting against the nomination and five senators absent. The strictly party-line result came after President Donald Trump urged the Republican-controlled chamber to stay in session through the weekend to clear a backlog of his nominees. Pirro, 74, has served as Washington’s interim top federal prosecutor since May, when Trump withdrew conservative activist Ed Martin’s nomination amid resistance from within the GOP. Before joining the administration, Pirro spent more than a decade on Fox News after earlier stints as a Westchester County district attorney and county judge in New York. Democrats questioned Pirro’s impartiality, citing her on-air promotion of false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. She was among the Fox personalities named in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit, which the network settled for $787.5 million in 2023, and is a defendant in Smartmatic’s separate $2.7 billion lawsuit still pending. The District of Columbia post is viewed as one of the most influential U.S. attorney offices because it handles high-profile political and national-security cases. Pirro’s elevation extends a pattern of Trump rewarding media figures—such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—with senior roles across his administration.