Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Gets Ticket for Speeding at 119 M.P.H.

Jeanine F. Pirro, the high-octane host of a Fox News Channel show, was given a summons on Sunday for driving 119 miles per hour in upstate New York, according to the State Police.

Ms. Pirro, a former Westchester County district attorney who now hosts the Fox News television show “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” said in a statement that she was unaware that she was going nearly double the speed limit of 65 miles an hour.

“I had been driving for hours to visit my ailing 89-year-old mom and didn’t realize how fast I was driving,” she said in the statement through a Fox News spokeswoman. “I believe in the rule of law and I will pay the consequences.”

Ms. Pirro was pulled over at 1:15 p.m. on Route 17 in the town of Nichols, N.Y., in the Southern Tier, about 25 miles east of Elmira, where she grew up and where her mother still lives, according to news reports.

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Ms. Pirro, known as much for her conservative views as for the rapid-fire way in which she expresses them, has made reference to her tendency to drive quickly. She said in a 2015 interview with The Hill that her biggest pet peeve was people who “drive slow in the passing lane.”

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More than a decade ago, when she was the Republican candidate for state attorney general, her husband at the time, Albert J. Pirro Jr., broke the state’s traffic laws as well. Mr. Pirro was caught driving 51 m.p.h. in a 25-m.p.h. zone in White Plains, and 98 m.p.h. on Interstate 95 in Westchester County, where the speed limit was 55 m.p.h.

Over the course of Mr. Pirro’s trial for tax evasion in 2000, for which he was convicted and sentenced to 29 months in prison, the couple’s luxury car collection was enumerated for the jury. It included Bentleys, several Mercedes, several more sport utility vehicles and a Ferrari 348 Spider that cost more than $120,000.