Chuck Darwin<p>Martin had a long career in Missouri politics <br>but has no prior prosecutorial experience. </p><p>He popped up on the D.C. radar screen when he tweeted at 2:53 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, <br>that he was <br>“at the Capitol right now” <br>and added that there was a <br>“[r]owdy crowd but nothing out of hand.”</p><p>Martin later represented Jan. 6 defendants. </p><p>Yet after his appointment as interim U.S. attorney on Jan. 20, 2025, he dismissed charges against his own client, <br>thus serving simultaneously as prosecutor and defense counsel in probable violation of his ethical duties.</p><p>Martin’s other abusive activities as acting U.S. attorney are well known. </p><p>Here is a partial list:</p><p>He fired career prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases.</p><p>He threatened to “chase … to the end of the Earth” not just people who had acted unlawfully, <br>but “simply unethically”<br>—a threat that is beyond his authority to make and is itself unethical.</p><p>He has made “a practice of sending threatening letters announcing vague ‘inquiries’ into figures he feels have crossed Trump in some way, <br>including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) <br>and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).”</p><p>He is groundlessly using his office to question whether president Biden issued lawful pardons in his final days in office.</p><p>He threatened Georgetown Law School over its DEI program <br>without citing any legal principles.</p><p>He conceives of his role as U.S. attorney primarily as one of “Trump’s lawyers” <br>fighting to “protect his leadership,” <br>as he made clear in connection with the case brought against the government by the Associated Press.</p><p>He has engaged in other conduct unbecoming of a federal prosecutor on social media.</p><p>It is unclear whether Martin acted in these instances with pure political goals; </p><p>or whether he does not understand the role of a U.S. attorney; </p><p>or whether he simply cannot meet basic professional standards. </p><p>Any of these explanations is disqualifying; </p><p>all three could be true.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EdwardMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwardMartin</span></a></p>