The Federalist Martin’s biggest opponents are fearful that he’ll fulfill the job he was appointed to do: to clean up rot and corruption.
The D.C. establishment hasn’t been shy about its attempts to defeat several of President Trump’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.
Earlier this week, nearly 100 former employees for the U.S. attorney’s office in the nation’s capital released a letter voicing their opposition to Martin’s nomination. A former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, Martin was tapped by Trump to serve as acting head of the office shortly after the latter’s inauguration and was further nominated to take over the position permanently in February.
In their whining statement, the former employees smeared Martin as an “unworthy” candidate who is “incapable” of fulfilling the duties required of him. They also hyperbolically claimed that his nomination represents as “an affront to the singular pursuit of justice for which this Office has stood for more than two centuries.”
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