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FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-two authorities attorneys wide sent a missive to Senate leaders connected Monday urging lawmakers to swiftly corroborate President Donald Trump's nominee to service arsenic United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, up of a May 20 deadline, erstwhile judges connected a tribunal led by Trump-antagonist Judge James Boasberg could prime a impermanent replacement.
"To enactment it bluntly, the District of Columbia is broken. And 4 years of corruption, mismanagement, and derelictions of work successful the U.S. Attorney’s Office nether President Biden’s appointees are successful galore ways to blame. The District should beryllium made harmless again. The District should person a U.S. Attorney who replaces the regularisation of lawfare with the regularisation of law. Ed Martin is the antheral to execute those goals. We powerfully promote the Senate to corroborate him astatine the earliest imaginable date," reads the letter, which was archetypal exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. It was sent to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley connected Monday afternoon.
The missive comes arsenic a May 20 deadline looms to corroborate the Trump nominee, erstwhile his relation arsenic interim U.S. lawyer runs adust aft 120 days successful the role. Martin, who antecedently worked arsenic a defence lawyer and represented Americans charged successful the Jan. 6 riot astatine the Capitol successful 2021, was named interim U.S. lawyer for the District of Columbia opening connected Inauguration Day.
If an interim U.S. lawyer is not confirmed by the Senate wrong 120 days, judges connected the national territory tribunal for that territory tin sanction a caller interim U.S. lawyer until a nominee is confirmed, Department of Justice documents show. Trump antagonist James Boasberg, an Obama-appointed justice astatine the halfway of ineligible efforts targeting Trump's deportation efforts, is the existent main justice of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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President Donald Trump (left) and Ed Martin (Getty/AP)
Trump has antecedently slammed the full D.C. District Court, saying it would beryllium "virtually impossible" for him to get an "honest ruling" aft Boasberg blocked Trump's Venezuelan deportation flights successful March.
"Our Nation’s Courts are broken, with New York and DC being the astir preeminent of each successful their Corruption and Radicalism. There indispensable beryllium an contiguous probe of this Rigged System, earlier it is excessively late!" Trump posted to Truth Social successful March.
Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita spearheaded the letter, and told Fox Digital connected Monday that Martin has already shown successful his fewer months serving connected an interim ground that "he’s a proven leader."
"I americium arrogant to pb this effort to enactment Ed Martin due to the fact that he’s a proven person who is already devoting each of his clip to restoring the regularisation of instrumentality successful our nation’s capital," Rokita said. "His bold actions person had an contiguous impact, which sent the disreputable D.C. quality media into a full-blown meltdown - the Senate indispensable enactment swiftly to corroborate him and guarantee his captious enactment continues uninterrupted."
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The missive likewise argued that the Senate confirmation process should spell smoothly arsenic lawmakers tin already analyse Martin's way grounds successful the role.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters astatine the White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
"The Senate does not person to wonderment oregon speculate astir whether Mr. Martin volition pb the U.S. Attorney’s Office with grant and skill," the authorities attorneys wide continued successful their letter. "As interim U.S. Attorney for the District since January 20, 2025, helium has shown conclusively that helium has what it takes to service successful that relation with integrity and a fearless committedness to bash what is close connected behalf of the American people. And determination are fewer offices successful the American justness strategy that could usage that benignant of person present arsenic overmuch arsenic the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office."
The 23 states that joined the missive include: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
Martin's confirmation has stalled, however, with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the apical Democrat connected the Senate Judiciary Committee, voicing concerns astir the information during the committee’s May 1 enforcement concern meeting.
"Last Friday, we received responses from Mr. Martin to our questions, and it raised adjacent much questions. Mr. Martin made a fig of mendacious statements and contradictory statements that are easy disproven by the worldly helium himself disclosed successful his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire. And it wasn’t conscionable to my questions—it was to Chairman Grassley’s questions arsenic well," Durbin said during the meeting.
Judge Boasberg, Ed Martin, and Donald Trump.
The AGs took circumstantial contented with however transgression has spiraled successful the nation's superior nether the Biden administration, which they cited was related to the justness strategy and failing to prosecute criminals.
"Under President Biden, nationalist information and the prime of beingness deteriorated successful the District of Columbia. Matthew Graves—President Biden’s appointee arsenic main national authoritative for District—oversaw during his tenure a profoundly troubling summation successful transgression successful the nation’s capital. In 2023 alone, the fig of homicides successful D.C. accrued by 35% implicit the erstwhile year. Robberies were up 67%. Car theft skyrocketed by 82%. All the while, Mr. Graves declined to prosecute implicit two-thirds of each transgression cases brought to his office. In this way, President Biden brought to the District the aforesaid lax-on-crime policies that person benighted galore of America’s largest cities for decades," they wrote.
Since taking implicit the position, Martin has overseen the dismissals of assorted Jan. 6 cases aft Trump pardoned and commuted the defendants.
Martin besides published a fiery missive successful February vowing to clasp to relationship those who effort to sabotage efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cleanable the national authorities of overspending and corruption. Trump granted clemency to much than 1,500 Jan. 6 transgression defendants upon taking bureau earlier this year.
"I admit that immoderate of the unit astatine DOGE person been targeted publicly," Martin wrote to Elon Musk successful the February letter. "At this time, I inquire that you utilize maine and my unit to assistance successful protecting the DOGE enactment and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations oregon different actions successful immoderate mode that interaction their enactment whitethorn interruption galore laws."
Indiana AG Todd Rokita spearheaded a missive to Senate leaders calling for the speedy confirmation of Ed Martin arsenic U.S. attorney. (Getty Images)
"Let maine guarantee you of this: We volition prosecute immoderate and each ineligible enactment against anyone who impedes your enactment oregon threatens your people," helium continued. "We volition not enactment similar the erstwhile medication who looked the different mode arsenic the Antifa and BLM rioters arsenic good arsenic thugs with guns trashed our superior city. We volition support DOGE and different workers nary substance what."
In their letter, the authorities attorneys wide said Martin has done much to ace down connected transgression during his fewer months arsenic interim person than his predecessor did nether the Biden administration.
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"Mr. Martin has prosecuted and seized the assets of pro-Hamas protestors who defaced monuments and assaulted police. He has pursued and indicted Chinese-backed hackers who threatened our nationalist security. He has prosecuted and disrupted the operations of gangs of amerciable aliens. He has rooted retired and brought to justness corrupt civilian servants who stole payer money. He has done much successful little than 4 months to reconstruct instrumentality and bid to the District than Matthew Graves did successful astir 4 years," they wrote.
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