The D.C. establishment hasn’t been shy about its attempts to defeat several of President Trump’s executive appointees. And the effort to derail the Senate confirmation of U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia nominee Ed Martin is no different.
Earlier this week, nearly 100 former employees for the U.S. attorney’s office in the nation’s capital released a letter voicing their opposition to Martin’s nomination. A former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, Martin was tapped by Trump to serve as acting head of the office shortly after the latter’s inauguration and was further nominated to take over the position permanently in February.
In their whining statement, the former employees smeared Martin as an “unworthy” candidate who is “incapable” of fulfilling the duties required of him. They also hyperbolically claimed that his nomination represents as “an affront to the singular pursuit of justice for which this Office has stood for more than two centuries.”
Written no differently than if it were a Democrat Party press release, the letter cited Martin’s past comments regarding the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol demonstrations as reasons “disqualifying” him from consideration. The authors further fearmongered that, should he be confirmed, Martin would turn the D.C.-based U.S. attorney’s office “into a political arm of the current administration” — something they seemingly had no issue with when it was occurring under the Biden administration.
