{"id":2429625,"date":"2025-05-01T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hysteria-against-ed-martin-is-exactly-why-he-should-be-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:49:37","slug":"hysteria-against-ed-martin-is-exactly-why-he-should-be-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hysteria-against-ed-martin-is-exactly-why-he-should-be-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hysteria Against Ed Martin Is Exactly Why He Should Be Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhysteria-against-ed-martin-is-exactly-why-he-should-be-confirmed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2429625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the opposition faced by Ed Martin, President Trump&#8217;s nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Nearly 100 former employees of the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office have expressed their disapproval of Martin&#8217;s nomination, criticizing him as &#8220;unworthy&#8221; and claiming that he is &#8220;incapable&#8221; of fulfilling the role. They argue that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cancel-culture-media-calls-for-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-to-resign-over-past-comments-rep-greene-hits-back\/\" title=\"Cancel Culture Media Calls for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Resign Over Past Comments \u2014 Rep. Greene HITS BACK\">past comments<\/a> on the 2020 election and the January 6 Capitol events disqualify him, fearing he would make the office a political tool of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The letter released by these former <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">employees mirrors partisan rhetoric<\/a>, likening Martin&#8217;s potential confirmation to an infringement upon justice, despite similar practices under the Biden administration. The article argues that their vehement response highlights Martin&#8217;s suitability for the role, as he aims to bring accountability and transparency back to the Department of Justice, which they claim has been politicized. <\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s actions since taking over the D.C. office include probing past DOJ abuses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/docs-reveal-facebook-and-twitter-collaborated-with-dhs-and-fbi-to-police-so-called-disinfo\/\" title=\"Docs Reveal Facebook and Twitter Collaborated With DHS and FBI to Police So-Called &quot;Disinfo&quot;\">including issues related<\/a> to the Trump-Russia examination. Democratic opposition is led by figures like Senator Adam Schiff, who is blocking Martin&#8217;s confirmation. The article suggests that Martin\u2019s opponents fear his commitment to reform, urging conservative support to overcome Senate resistance to his nomination.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The D.C. establishment hasn&rsquo;t been shy about its attempts to defeat several of President Trump&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, nearly 100 former employees for the U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office in the nation&rsquo;s capital released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/855100863\/Marin-Letter?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> voicing their opposition to Martin&rsquo;s nomination. A former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, Martin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3321799\/trump-ed-martin-us-attorney-washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tapped<\/a> by Trump to serve as acting head of the office shortly after the latter&rsquo;s inauguration and was further nominated to take over the position permanently in February. <\/p>\n<p>In their whining statement, the former employees smeared Martin as an &ldquo;unworthy&rdquo; candidate who is &ldquo;incapable&rdquo; of fulfilling the duties required of him. They also hyperbolically claimed that his nomination represents as &ldquo;an affront to the singular pursuit of justice for which this Office has stood for more than two centuries.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Written no differently than if it were a Democrat Party press release, the letter cited Martin&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3396613\/thom-tillis-ed-martin-concerned-trump-lawyer-controversial-statements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">past comments<\/a> regarding the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol demonstrations as reasons &ldquo;disqualifying&rdquo; him from consideration. The authors further fearmongered that, should he be confirmed, Martin would turn the D.C.-based U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office &ldquo;into a political arm of the current administration&rdquo; &mdash; something they seemingly had no issue with when it was occurring <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/04\/this-activist-wife-schmoozes-the-get-trump-white-house-while-her-prosecutor-husband-jails-j6ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under the Biden administration<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is a time when we all are called to stand for the full and fair administration of justice and the rule of law. For those of us who have served in the Office of the United States Attorney and still have a breath, that time is now,&rdquo; wrote the former employees in melodramatic fashion. <\/p>\n<p>While their characterization of Martin&rsquo;s actions since taking over the D.C. office as those &ldquo;typify[ing] authoritarian and indeed totalitarian regimes&rdquo; tracks with the rest of their unhinged screed, the authors&rsquo; outlandish temper tantrum is a good indication that Martin&rsquo;s the right man for the job. <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Joy Pullmann previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/03\/if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, Martin has been laser-focused on restoring accountability and transparency to a Department of Justice (DOJ) that was fully weaponized by the Biden administration to target its political opponents. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside the Trump DOJ, Martin has &ldquo;sought the firing or retirements of numerous top FBI and DOJ personnel, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officer_Lew\/status\/1885707210862277085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an accounting<\/a>&nbsp;of all FBI personnel involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 prosecutions.&rdquo; He&rsquo;s also, as Pullmann noted, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/new-dc-us-attorney-opens-inquiry?publication_id=1666532&amp;post_id=156126215&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=b9vf5&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">direct[ed] an internal probe<\/a>&nbsp;into the DOJ&rsquo;s abuse of a post-Enron obstruction statute that the Supreme Court said the department used unlawfully to imprison right-leaning Capitol protesters with help from Constitution-hating federal judges.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/04\/this-activist-wife-schmoozes-the-get-trump-white-house-while-her-prosecutor-husband-jails-j6ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This Activist Wife Schmoozes The Get-Trump White House While Her Prosecutor Husband Jails J6ers<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s only the tip of the iceberg. The acting U.S. attorney for D.C. also appears to be probing the DOJ&rsquo;s involvement in perpetuating the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/knives-are-out-for-ed-martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tuesday report<\/a> by independent journalist Julie Kelly, Martin sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1912488226926756053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> last month &ldquo;to a former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller&rsquo;s team seeking a sit-down to discuss the DOJ&rsquo;s dirty prosecution of a Trump 2016 campaign aide.&rdquo; That individual would be Aaron Zelinsky, whom Kelly noted &ldquo;resigned from the DOJ on January 10 and later whined on social media that he was &lsquo;furious, heartbroken, and disappointed at what the President and his appointees are doing to DOJ,&rsquo; [and] handled the cases against George Papadopoulos and Roger Stone.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Martin wants to address misrepresentations made by Zelinsky in the prosecution of Papadopoulos, one of the fall guys in the Russian collusion hoax,&rdquo; Kelly wrote. <\/p>\n<p>(It&rsquo;s no wonder then that Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/adam-schiff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Schiff<\/a>, D-Calif. &mdash; a prominent Russia collusion hoaxer &mdash; is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3368007\/adam-schiff-ruben-gallego-hold-up-trump-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocking<\/a> Martin&rsquo;s confirmation via a Senate procedural hold.)<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to their sensationalized rhetoric, Martin&rsquo;s biggest opponents aren&rsquo;t actually outraged about his past comments. Rather, they&rsquo;re fearful that he&rsquo;ll fulfill the job he was appointed to do: to clean up the rot and corruption infecting the D.C-based U.S. attorney&rsquo;s office and the DOJ writ large. <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives wanting to get Martin&rsquo;s nomination across the finish line will need to make a serious, concentrated effort to pressure weak-kneed Republicans (like North Carolina Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MacFarlaneNews\/status\/1917634053395595704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thom Tillis<\/a>) to support his candidacy. Failure to do so could result in Martin&rsquo;s nomination getting withdrawn, giving the D.C. establishment the exact outcome it wants. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The D.C. establishment is actively opposing Trump&#8217;s appointees, including Ed Martin&#8217;s Senate confirmation as U.S. attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2429626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ed-Martin.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16629,50410,50500,6346,5894],"class_list":["post-2429625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-confirmation","tag-controversy-2","tag-ed-martin","tag-hysteria","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ed-Martin.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429629,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429625\/revisions\/2429629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}