Jeanine Pirro

NEW YORK — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is back on the air after a two-week absence. “Justice with Judge Jeanine” returned Saturday.

Pirro asked on-air March 9 whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s traditional Muslim head covering indicated the Minnesota Democrat followed Islamic religious law that Pirro called “antithetical to the U.S. Constitution.”

Fox “strongly condemned” Pirro’s comments. The network didn’t explain her subsequent absence, declining to comment on “internal scheduling matters.”

By Associated Press