D.C. needs an independent U.S. attorney

Decades before Jeanine Pirro became a co-host of Fox News’s “The Five,” cable’s highest-rated news show, she was a respected prosecutor, county court judge and then district attorney in New York’s Westchester County. This makes her better qualified to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia than Ed Martin, whose nomination President Donald Trump withdrew last week following opposition from Republicans on Capitol Hill.But since Pirro left her last job as a prosecutor two decades ago, she has acted in ways that call into question whether she has the independence necessary to responsibly take on one...