Oh how the mighty have fallen. According to Slate, Trump DOJ crony Ed Martin is in trouble again.
It seems
fair to assume that Donald Trump’s second presidency hasn’t turned out quite
the way Martin had hoped. The former interim U.S. attorney for the District
of Columbia has faced a series of embarrassing setbacks over the past 14
months, tumbling down the Justice Department’s ladder, rung by rung, as fellow
Republicans turned sharply against him. But the biggest blow so far arrived on
Tuesday, when disciplinary counsel for the D.C. bar announced a formal
complaint against Martin for professional misconduct. The charges
accuse him of violating his oath to the Constitution, then interfering
with the investigation into his alleged malfeasance. If found culpable, he
could be suspended from the practice of law or disbarred in D.C.
A year
ago, Martin fired off a letter to Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) Dean William Treanor demanding that the school
immediately cease all DEI initiatives and proactively informing the school that
none of its graduates would be considered for positions at the DOJ.
Treanor spanked him for being a bad lawyer and a bad Catholic
and a bad American — check, check, and check! — and Martin wandered off to piss
into the wind somewhere else.
According to Above the Law, that
wasn’t the end of the story, because retired California judge Phillip Argento
(GULC ’75) was so incensed that he fired off a complaint to the DC Board of
Professional Responsibility. At which point Martin LOST HIS DAMN MIND.
From
the Specification of Charges:
Instead of
responding to Disciplinary Counsel’s letter, on March 31, 2025, Mr. Martin
sent, ex parte, a letter to the Chief Judge and the Senior Judges of the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In that letter, he stated that he would
not be responding to Disciplinary Counsel’s inquiry, complained about
Disciplinary Counsel’s “uneven behavior,” and requested a “face-to-face meeting
with all of you to discuss this matter and find a way forward.” He copied the
White House Counsel “for informational purposes because of the importance of
getting this issue addressed.”
And
although the judges told him immediately that ex parte communications were
inappropriate and he should continue with the process, he kept on firing off
notes to the court two more times, all the while ignoring letters from the
Disciplinary Counsel. Notably, Martin cc’d the White House Counsel on the first
nastygram, which raises some interesting questions about the ethical advice
David Warrington is giving the administration.
So now Martin has two charges, one for violating the First Amendment and
punishing GULC for its protected speech, and one for communicating ex parte
with a judge during a proceeding. Perhaps this is why Attorney General Pam
Bondi has been desperately trying to take over state bar complaints!
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