Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking the District of Columbia’s bar association to investigate #Ed #Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in the capital, saying that he had “abused” prosecutorial power to threaten his political opponents.
In a letter to the bar association on Thursday, the senators, led by Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the committee’s top Democrat, also accused Mr. Martin of violating professional standards by refusing to recuse himself from a case involving a Capitol rioter he privately represented and dismissing charges against the man.
Martin, a Missouri Republican who has used social media to threaten critics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, has upended one of the most important U.S. attorney’s offices in the country.
He has purged nonpolitical career staff involved in the investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and at times directly interceded in prosecutorial decision-making.
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