The Guardian - Donald Trump’s appointee as interim US attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to hold the position permanently, Ed Martin, has repeatedly made derogatory and racist comments in past social media posts and columns.
Martin’s rhetoric includes falsely claiming Kamala Harris is “self-identified” as Black and calling her the new Rachel Dolezal, claiming Planned Parenthood targets Black communities for abortions, claiming that the supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor made racist comments to white males about her own identity and invoking false claims about Dr Martin Luther King Jr to affirm support for the Republican party and the Tea Party movement.
Trump appointed Martin to be interim US attorney in January 2025 Last week, Martin wrote a letter to the dean of Georgetown’s law school, telling the school to end any diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, claiming his office would not hire anyone associated with a university with DEI programs.
In recent weeks, he has also tried to initiate a grand jury investigation into the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, over 2020 comments about supreme court justices and wrote letters threatening to prosecute Schumer and the congressman Robert Garcia over their criticism of billionaire Elon Musk and the so-called “department of government efficiency”.
He has also referred to himself and other US attorneys as “President Trump’s lawyers” rather than an independent, law-abiding officer sworn to uphold the US constitution. Senate Democrats have asked the DC bar association to investigate Martin for using the office to threaten political opponents and pardon past clients, January 6 defendants.
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