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This is from Joyce Vance Substack.
Ed Martin is Trump's nominee for (and current "Acting") U.S. Attorney for D.C. (how he can be acting, I don't know, since he's never been confirmed). He is a walking, talking, firebreathing ethical violation personified, supremely unqualified and inappropriate for the position, and, in the words of Senator Adam Schiff, “No one embodies Donald Trump’s personal weaponization of the Justice Department more than Ed Martin.”
Among his numerous disqualifications,
he's never been a prosecutor;
he "supported the “Stop the Steal” movement after the 2020 election. He moved to dismiss pending January 6-related cases as soon as he became the interim U.S. Attorney. [Including one in which he was the defense attorney];
he fired prosecutors who worked on the cases and launched an internal review to try to find misconduct, not that any had been alleged. He is investigating Justice Department prosecutors who brought charges against rioters";
he "has been making public comments that will impact cases, as in leading district judges to dismiss them. DOJ policy expressly prohibits prosecutors from suggesting a defendant is guilty before they are convicted";
he has used his office to threaten views that are different than those of this administration;
he has a close relationship with Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist who supports Nazi ideology and used to wear a Hitler-style mustache to work before his conviction in connection with January 6".
As Vance suggests, contact your Senator to let them know, Martin needs to be removed.
The Outrage That Is Ed Martin
When I was going through the selection process for a U.S.
Ed Martin is Trump's nominee for (and current "Acting") U.S. Attorney for D.C. (how he can be acting, I don't know, since he's never been confirmed). He is a walking, talking, firebreathing ethical violation personified, supremely unqualified and inappropriate for the position, and, in the words of Senator Adam Schiff, “No one embodies Donald Trump’s personal weaponization of the Justice Department more than Ed Martin.”
Among his numerous disqualifications,
he's never been a prosecutor;
he "supported the “Stop the Steal” movement after the 2020 election. He moved to dismiss pending January 6-related cases as soon as he became the interim U.S. Attorney. [Including one in which he was the defense attorney];
he fired prosecutors who worked on the cases and launched an internal review to try to find misconduct, not that any had been alleged. He is investigating Justice Department prosecutors who brought charges against rioters";
he "has been making public comments that will impact cases, as in leading district judges to dismiss them. DOJ policy expressly prohibits prosecutors from suggesting a defendant is guilty before they are convicted";
he has used his office to threaten views that are different than those of this administration;
he has a close relationship with Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a white supremacist who supports Nazi ideology and used to wear a Hitler-style mustache to work before his conviction in connection with January 6".
As Vance suggests, contact your Senator to let them know, Martin needs to be removed.