Scandal-plagued U.S. attorney nominee faces new, bipartisan headwinds [View all]

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Partisan concerns surrounding Ed Martin, the interim Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., finally became bipartisan.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/scandal-plagued-us-attorney-nominee-faces-new-bipartisan-headwinds-rcna204124

It’s not exactly a secret that congressional Democrats see Ed Martin, the interim Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., as an outrageous and scandal-plagued figure whose nomination to a permanent position is indefensible. To date, however, no congressional Republicans had come to a similar conclusion.

This week, as NBC News reported, partisan concerns about Martin became bipartisan concerns.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he has ‘serious questions’ for Ed Martin, Trump’s pick to serve as the top U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Martin, a long-time Trump ally, became a known ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and represented Jan. 6 defendants who faced criminal charges for their actions that day. He has fired over a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases in his time serving as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Asked if he will support Martin, the North Carolina Republican told NBC News, “I’m not going to say I’m a no now, I’m going to say, I’m concerned with some of his public comments, and particularly on January 6th.”.....

For those unfamiliar with the Missouri Republican, Martin’s “greatest hits” package features misguided and unnecessary fights with the dean of Georgetown University’s law school, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former President Joe Biden and Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Eugene Vindman of Virginia — and that’s before one adds Wikipedia and prominent medical journals to his increasingly bizarre list of targets. During his brief tenure, Martin has also:

demoted multiple senior officials involved in Jan. 6 insurrection cases;

compared one of the criminal charges used against Jan. 6 defendants to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II;

falsely described himself as one of the president’s lawyers;

made dubious denials about his earlier praise for a Nazi sympathizer;

made more than 150 appearances on Russian propaganda outlets between August 2016 to April 2024;

weighed in on a civil case involving the White House, which had literally nothing to do with his office;

intervened in a dubious Environmental Protection Agency investigation;

made a dubious decision in a case involving Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida;

launched the wildly unnecessary “Operation Whirlwind”;

also launched the wildly unnecessary “Project 1512” initiative;

also launched a wildly unnecessary “election accountability” unit;

made a creepy public vow to wield his prosecutorial powers against those who get in Elon Musk’s way;

engaged in brazen conflict of interest in a Jan. 6 case, in which he effectively took both sides of a criminal case;
and kicked off a radically unnecessary investigation into Jack Smith and a law firm that gave the former special counsel pro bono legal services.

In a piece for New York magazine, Elie Honig recently described the lawyer as Trump’s “dangerous and ridiculous prosecutor.” Martin seems to be going out of his way to prove his many critics right.

Ed Martin needs to be confirmed by the Senate by May 20 or trump has to appoint a new interim AG for this district