People are not appreciating the magnitude of the confirmation of District Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin. He runs all DC criminal investigations. He is the choke point for DC’s worst secrets. If Ed Martin is blocked, and D.C. Court Boasberg gets to pick the U.S. Attorney for D.C.. Trump 2.0’s momentum is totally paralyzed.
Sen. Thom Tillis’ office brushed off concern that a left-wing court could select an interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after the North Carolina Republican bucked President Donald Trump’s pick for the role, putting the onus on the Trump administration to select a successor and avoid involvement from federal judges.
Tillis, R-N.C., sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is overseeing the confirmation process of Ed Martin, Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin has served as interim U.S. attorney since Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration but is facing a May 20 deadline to be confirmed.
If an interim U.S. attorney is not confirmed by the Senate within 120 days, however, judges on the federal district court for that district could name a new interim U.S. attorney until the role is filled. Trump antagonist Judge James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed judge at the center of legal efforts targeting Trump’s deportation efforts, is the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
As you watch Thom Tillis explain why he wants to block Ed Martin — which would result in anti-Trump Judge Boasberg appointing the US Atty in DC —
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 6, 2025
— recall he also worked to blow up the Hegseth nomination.
Tillis continues to work his ass off against Trump, his agenda and the… pic.twitter.com/kuBVatudWG
The Senate looks likely to sink the nomination of Ed Martin, President Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney for D.C., leaving his future in doubt amid a pressure campaign on the GOP from the president.
His prospects took a major hit Tuesday when Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not back the controversial nominee.
“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for any district except the district where Jan. 6 happened, the protest happened, I’d probably support him, but not in this district,” Tillis told reporters Tuesday.
A former “Stop the Steal” speaker, Martin represented several Jan. 6 defendants in trials, while one of his first moves in his current post was to reassign or dismiss prosecutors on those cases. He also simultaneously represented one client while moving to dismiss charges against him as U.S. attorney, doing the same for all cases in the wake of broad pardons issued by Trump on his first day in office.
As insane as it sounds, it’s true: If Senate Republicans block the confirmation of Ed Martin, anti-Trump activist Judge James Boasberg (the same one who is blocking deportation flights and who helped cover up the Russiagate fraud) will get to hand-pick the U.S. Attorney instead. pic.twitter.com/hkrckPPjtJ
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 5, 2025
The worst of the swamp.
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