As recently as last year, Jeanine Pirro had a perfectly good job as a Fox News host, which allowed her to get paid to sing the praises of President Donald Trump. She gave up that job, however, when the White House offered her an opportunity to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

Fifteen months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether, if Pirro had it to do over again, she would make the same choice.

As August got underway, the U.S. attorney in the nation’s capital became the target of Donald Trump’s ire after she sided with reality over his perceptions in a baseless criminal case. In the days that followed, Pirro also clashed with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, a prominent member of the president’s Cabinet.

As August nears its end, conditions have not improved for the Republican lawyer. For one thing, she keeps losing important cases, a losing streak that’s persisted throughout her tenure.

For another, Pirro is now also facing a new bar complaint. The Associated Press reported this week:

A legal watchdog says it filed bar complaints on Tuesday accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal crimes for appearing in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.

The Legal Accountability Center’s bar complaints, filed in New York and Virginia, claim Pirro and her subordinates, Carlton Davis and Steven Vandervelden, abused their prosecutorial powers to seek “meritless” indictments against President Donald Trump’s “perceived political enemies.”

A spokesperson for Pirro’s office described the complaint as “frivolous,” while accusing the Legal Accountability Center of attempting to “weaponize the disciplinary process.”

There was a degree of irony to the pushback. Pirro and her office tried to bring felony charges against six members of Congress who’d done nothing wrong, and that same office feels justified accusing others of weaponizing legal processes.

One day after the bar complaint was filed, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, launched a new congressional investigation into alleged prosecutorial misconduct, including incidents related to cases brought by Pirro and her office.

To be sure, because Democrats are in the minority, there’s a limit to how much information it can demand as part of this and related probes. But if Democrats fare well in the midterm elections and Raskin becomes the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Pirro and other federal prosecutors will have far fewer options when it comes to congressional inquiries.

Whether Pirro will still be in office by that point, however, is an open question.

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