If President Donald Trump chose Ed Martin, Missouri’s lawyer and political operativeIn order to become a US prosecutor in Washington, Colombia District, this decision became a shock to current and former federal prosecutors, as well as by the borders of legal experts. Martin had no experience of the prosecutor. He was most famous as a conservative activist, a former right person who affects the influential anti -feminist icon Philis Slafley and the true Trump’s surrogate.
Since the take of responsibility for the post in January, Martin has launched conflicting investigations, rushed to defend the government’s efficiency department Ilon Musk and promised to change how his office pursued a crime in the Colombia district.
His actions were met with a brutal retreat from democratic legislators, groups of guard and legal experts. Were at least four disciplinary complaint served Against him with DC and Missouri bars. One of the complaints about the permanent position was dismissed by; The other three seem to be waiting. When Martin replied to complaints, his statements were not announced.
Martin did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Here are some of Martin’s most controversial steps so far.
January 6 retaliation
According to Trump’s instructions, Martin managed the dismissal of unresolved cases, which were part of the Ministry of Justice investigation on January 6, 2021, the riots in the Capitol.
But Martin stumbled upon what was supposed to be legal formality: in one of the cases he fired, he was Is still on the list As a lawyer recorded for the defendant, a possible conflict of interest. The incident caused complaints about Martin’s bar and Missouri. (Disciplinary bar dc bar dismissed by The complaint, saying that Martin acted at the freedom of the president. Missour complaint Seems to be waiting.)
Martin fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on January 6. He lowered Seven senior lawyers in his office, including two prosecutors who headed the team on January 6, to the role of low level in the Supreme Court, which deals with local persecution. (Most affected lawyers have not commented publicly, but those who have a Martin’s critical stay.)
Martin opened an investigation into the alleged leaks related to the cases of January 6, saying that the information was used by “media and guerrillas as misinformation.” He also ordered an investigation into past decisions made in the framework of the cases on January 6. In 2024 the US Supreme Court ease Using Doj Statute Obstruction in these persecution. Overall, an email received by PROPBLICA, Martin quotes unnamed contact, which compared the use of the DOJ’s obstacle with the decision of President Franklin Roosevelt’s prison more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in the Hospital During World War II.
DOGE ENFORCER
Martin published several open letters Musk on the social media platform belonging to Musk, X.
In The first letterDated on February 3, Martin asked Musk to “use me and my staff” to protect people and doge work. He promised to accept “any and all legal acts against anyone”, which hindered the work of Doge.
“We will not act as a previous administration,” Martin added, “which looked like” antifa “and” BLM “, as well as the weapons with weapons destroyed our capital.”
In it The second letterDated February 7, Martin expanded his promise to his office’s legal powers in support of Moscow and Doge. “Please let me repeat again: if people are discovered that they broke the law or even acted simply unethical, we will investigate them, and we will chase them to the end of the earth to bring them to justice,” Martin wrote.
He urged his employees to respond to Moscow’s demand for all federal staff to list the five things they achieved this week, adding: “Doge and Elon do great work!” Historical. “
And when Dogeg staff tried to seize control over the US Peace Institute, a private non -profit organization that receives state funding, Martin and his office relieve So Dodge could take over and twist a non -profit organization.
“We’ll defend you”
The US Prosecutor’s Office is unique in that it pursues both federal and local crimes. In his tweets and public statements, Martin promised to “make DC again”, although a violent crime has widely refused in the area in recent years.
While his public safety agenda is still illuminating the details, he has pledged to become a committed defender of the DC police. In another Letter Posted on X, Martin wrote that the “radical” police movement “the” black life “ended” and that it came “time to return to the defense and support of our law enforcement officers.”
“At every turn we will defend you,” he said.
However, the current and former federal prosecutors in the Colombian district say that Martin’s actions are still overcoming the moral in the office, while his proposed reforms can make it more difficult rather than the prosecutor’s office.
In February Martin removed Main and Deputy Chief Federal major crimes A section that oversees drug -related cases, firearms, children, trafficking in human beings and immigration violations. Both attorneys who had decades of experience between them were widely respected, were lowered by the role of the low level; Melissa Jackson, older than two, resigned. (Jackson refused to comment; her deputy did not respond to a comment request.)
Martin too – Note He “copied” the office policy for the so -called Lewis list, the repository of the police officer. The prosecutor’s office will consult with Lewis’s database if they decide whether a police officer should be put on the witness stand. They also use the Lewis List to identify the officers about which they need to disclose the information to the defenders who have confidence in the witness or the potential prejudice to fulfill their constitutional commitments.
Martin made his decision to reform the Lewis list as part of a wider shift to become more policy. “USAO will no longer allow judges and others to damage your career for the negative impact of inaccurate characteristics,” he wrote.
Michael Raman, a former federal prosecutor in the DC office, said any effort to weaken or eliminate the Lewis list will only complicate the prosecutor’s office to argue and win the case as they will deprive them of their information they should disclose in court. “Cluttering Lewis’s list,” Raman Propublica said, “makes the prosecutor’s office less likely to receive convictions, it makes more likely that the criminal records will be abolished and prosecutors’ licenses for the right to risk.”
Investigation of Democrats
Martin initiated several requests from Trump’s critics and opponents.
Martin asked the representative Eugene Windman, Washington. Reported about the Washington Post. Windman and his brother -blizzer Alex, both undermined the whistle at Trump’s attempt to abandon Ukraine’s military assistance by pressing the country’s leader to investigate the President Joe Biden’s family. Eugene Windman – Note This letter to Martin was part of Trump’s “payment” and that those who wrote the letter and “prompted this amazing intimidation attempts.”
Biden’s family members and former officials from his administration received letters from Martin’s office related to the ex-president’s decision to provide poros The New York Times reported. Trump pushed unproven theory Biden’s actions were invalid because he was not mentally competent.
He also sent Senator Shumer’s letters from New York and Robert Garcia from California, both Democrats, asking the questions about the incendiary public comments they made. The requests seem to be exposed and did not lead to any charges.
Signing on medical logs
April 14 Martin sent a list of questions to the editor of CEST, a medical magazine published by the American College of Breast Doctors. The letter accused the magazine and others, as well as being “guerrillas in various scientific discussions” and asked a number of controversial questions, for example, “how did you clearly formulate when you have certain points of view that affect your constant relationships with fans, sponsors, advertisers and others?” And “How do you handle the allegations that the authors of the works in your magazines can mislead readers?”
Two other publishers of medical magazines received similar letters The New York Times reported. The letters caused serious concern about the restraint of free speech and intimidation of the government’s scientific publications.
