'' Supreme Court: Chuck Schumer’s attack on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, explained''

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March 5, 2020 Politics

by Ian Millhiser

Mar 5, 2020, 11:40 AM EST

''Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer speaking at an abortion rights rally outside of the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Wednesday morning, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a major abortion case, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke at an abortion rights rally outside the Court. One line of his remarks swiftly generated outrage among conservatives and received a rare public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts.

I’m going to quote that line briefly, then I’m going to quote it again in context below, because the full context does suggest that Roberts may have misinterpreted Schumer’s remarks somewhat, even if it does not render the statement innocuous. However you interpret Schumer’s statement, it is a reflection of a much deeper rot within American democracy.

'' The Schumer quote that triggered Roberts’s reply is this: “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” ''

“Gorsuch” and “Kavanaugh,” of course, refer to Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — President Trump’s two appointees to the Supreme Court, whose confirmations were opposed by nearly all Senate Democrats.

The conservative blowback against Schumer was swift and intense. The National Review’s John Hirschauer labeled Schumer a “thug.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Schumer’s remarks were, at best, “astonishing, reckless and completely irresponsible.” President Trump weighed in in his distinctly Trumpy way.

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Jan. 6 prosecutors fired by Trump D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin

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February 1, 2025

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D.C. U.S. attorney fires Jan. 6 prosecutors, launches new probes

Ed Martin has fired Jan. 6 prosecutors, launched investigations of Capitol riot prosecutions and threatened the nation’s top elected Democrat with an inquiry.

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WASHINGTON, DC — NOVEMBER 05: Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a conservative political organization based in St. Louis, MO, speaks during a news conference outside the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. With many critical battleground states still not announcing the results of their vote count, the presidential election is still too close to call. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

By Spencer S. Hsu and Tom Jackman

Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office’s scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said.

The prosecutors were on probationary status after being converted to full-time from shorter-term positions after Election Day under circumstances the Trump administration is investigating, according to documents from Martin and acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove that were emailed around 5 p.m. and viewed by The Washington Post.

In his first 11 days in office, Martin, 54, has moved quickly to align the office with President Donald Trump’s political views — and drawn significant criticism in the process. Since being appointed on Jan. 20, Martin has ordered top supervisors in the office to investigate their colleagues’ handling of the Capitol riot prosecutions in the wake of Trump’s mass pardons and threatened subordinates who disclose or criticize his actions.

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And he appeared to set his sights on scrutinizing the nation’s top elected Democrat, sending what he called a “letter of inquiry” to Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) about his quickly walked-back statement in a March 2020 rally that two of Trump’s recently nominated Supreme Court justices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for a vote against abortion rights.

“We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,” Martin wrote Schumer in a Jan. 21 letter obtained by The Post.

Martin’s actions are likely to be welcomed by Trump and allies, who assert they were unfairly targeted by the past administration. But career prosecutors who have served under presidents of both parties say Martin is politicizing the office and potentially breaking with 50 years of Justice Department policy and practice intended to shield criminal prosecutions from political considerations. They warn that an exodus of veteran prosecutors will threaten public safety and national security, leaving a more pliant institution that could enable Trump’s avowed desire to punish his foes in a second term.

Friday’s notifications went out to the people being terminated who served in the office’s now-disbanded Capitol siege prosecution section, according to four people and documents viewed by The Post. The cuts amount to about 8 percent of the office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on hiring and promotions, the openings will have impacts across the office’s civil, appellate, Superior Court and violent crime divisions, where some prosecutors had been previously reassigned.

In a memorandum dated Friday, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove directed the termination of the prosecutors, characterizing their hiring as a “subversive” action by the Biden administration that hindered Martin’s ability to staff the office and “to faithfully implement” Trump’s agenda.

“I will not tolerate subversive personnel actions by the previous Administration at any U.S. attorney’s office,” Bove said, adding that it would be appropriate to redirect personnel resources for new hires. The memo did not acknowledge that the administration has imposed a hiring and promotions freeze.

An email sent by Martin notified recipients to retain all documents relating to “personnel decisions regarding attorneys hired to support casework” regarding the Capitol riot, which the memo said is now under investigation pursuant to Trump’s executive order targeting the “weaponization” of law enforcement and intelligence agencies against him.

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The dismissals came after James R. McHenry III, the acting attorney general, earlier this week fired members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team that prosecuted Trump; meanwhile, the FBI is considering a mass purge of agents involved in investigations of Trump and the Capitol riot. Separately, Martin has ordered an internal review of prosecutors’ handling of some Jan. 6 prosecutions, focusing on one of the most heavily litigated counts in the investigation that President Donald Trump has called a “witch hunt” against him.

More than a dozen current and former D.C. U.S. prosecutors contacted about Martin condemned the actions.

“Politics above all, that’s what this Department of Justice is about,” former assistant U.S. attorney Ashley Akers told MSNBC after resigning last week. “The message it sends is, ‘Adhere to the president and the will of the president, or you’ll be fired.’ And second, it shows a lack of independence at the Department of Justice.”

Martin is the first U.S. attorney for D.C. in at least 50 years not to have served as a judge or federal prosecutor,posing what former U.S. officials said is an extraordinary challenge as he oversees roughly 360 prosecutors responsible for investigating current and former members of Congress and the executive branch, prosecuting key national security and international crimes, and enforcing all D.C. felony laws.

Martin and the U.S. attorney’s office declined requests for interviews this week. But allies said that after Trump campaigned on vows to seek “retribution” against political enemies, Martin is in position to seek out “accountability” and evidence to back Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that criminal charges against him were made to damage him politically.

Martin seeks to learn, for example, whether prosecutors or senior Justice Department officials were politically motivated to punish Trump or supporters when they charged more than 250 riot defendants with felony obstruction of Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. Those decisions began under career prosecutors and Trump’s first term-appointees, and were upheld by nearly all judges to review them before the Supreme Court said the law could only be applied to those who seek to interfere with physical evidence.

Martin’s “instructions on 1512 are just the beginning. He’s going to find the origins of the legal theory and the purveyors of it, and follow through accordingly,” said a Trump legal adviser close to Martin, who referred to the obstruction statute by its section number is U.S. code and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about Martin’s plans publicly.

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People “are going to learn the hard way that there’s going to be accountability for a politicized and weaponized Justice Department,” said Mike Davis, another friend of Martin and conservative Trump legal adviser whom Donald Trump Jr. has called “the tip of the spear” defending his father from “corrupt Democrat” prosecutors.

Martin’s moves so far in office also appear aligned with the aims of Trump Office of Management Budget Director Russell Vought, who has stated he wants to make civil servants want to quit. Martin served as deputy policy director for the Republican National Convention’s 2024 platform committee under Vought, an architect of Project 2025, a conservative effort to expand presidential power and make the attorney general more loyal to the White House. The president tapped Martin in December to serve as Vought’s chief of staff on his return as director of Office of Management and Budget before an 11th-hour move to the prosecutor post.

Former colleagues said that Martin’s affability and zeal, along with his combustibility and an ideological edge, were evident to those who worked with him.

“He is one of the hardest-working candidates I’ve ever seen in my life,” John Hancock, who would later take over as Missouri GOP chairman from Martin, said in 2010.

“I like Ed,” former state Democratic Party chairman Michael Kelley said in the same Martin profile. “But working with Ed is like working with a lit firecracker. It’s gonna explode; you just don’t know when.”

Martin has long found himself at the center of political controversy. In 2007, Martin abruptly resigned without explanation as chief of staff to then-Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R). The office was entangled in a secrecy dispute, denying that its emails were subject to the state’s open records law and claiming that some emails didn’t exist.

But backups surfaced. And they showed Martin using his state email account to urge political allies to attack Blunt’s opponent in the governor’s race, and to criticize a judge nominated by Blunt to the state Supreme Court.

A staff lawyer Martin fired for advising Blunt’s staff that their emails were public records later sued and won a judgment for defamation and wrongful termination, costing taxpayers $2 million in legal expenses. Blunt dropped his reelection bid.

“There was not a guiding set of principles behind anything Ed Martin pursued, because it became apparent he would lie, cheat, and steal, and destroy me and others to try to get away with an obvious illegality with erasing those public records,” the staff lawyer, Scott Eckersley, told The Post this week. He called Martin “a dangerous man who is really governed by emotion and by whatever he wants in that moment.”

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The episode didn’t sink Martin. After losing bids for Congress and Missouri attorney general, he chaired the state’s Republican Party, then led Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum. In September 2016, the day after the famed conservative activist and opponent of feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment died, the pair published a book, “The Conservative Case for Trump,” launching Martin’s steady climb into the president’s orbit.

So far in office, as in past roles, Martin led with personnel changes. Some moves, such as his cleanup as chair of the troubled St. Louis board of elections in 2005, drew bipartisan praise. Others — such as when he sent packing liberal-leaning staff at the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, lawyers at the governor’s office, and an election staffer who said he found her “not Republican enough” — prompted claims that Martin was a hatchet man.

By his second day in office in D.C., Martin told staffers he expected to serve as Trump’s permanent U.S. attorney, getting ahead of any White House announcement and contradicting his stated expectation days earlier, according to five people in attendance or briefed on the meeting.

Martin also replaced the office’s experienced top assistant U.S. attorney with a career prosecutor and supervisor who served as a GOP Senate staffer. He eliminated the Capitol siege prosecution unit and removed its chief, The Post has reported, and froze hiring and promotions.

Martin also tasked two other top leaders, the heads of its federal criminal division and of its fraud, public corruption and civil rights section, to lead a fast-tracked review of prosecutors’ handling of Capitol riot prosecutions. Ordering those senior supervisors to investigate colleagues puts them in a difficult position, and many are watching for Martin’s next moves.

A devout Catholic raised in central New Jersey, Martin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, earned a philosophy degree at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and earned degrees in law and ethics from St. Louis University. After a year clerking for a federal judge in Kansas City, Martin launched his legal career at a large law firm, Bryan Cave, and later opened his own firm.

In 2018, Martin moved his wife and four children to Great Falls, a wealthy Northern Virginia suburb west of the capital, where he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

Whatever his electoral setbacks, Martin has amassed influence by extending Schlafly’s legacy and becoming a right-wing radio show host and podcaster whose shoot-from-the-lip, wrecking-ball style recalls Stephen K. Bannon or Alex Jones. Like them, Martin has methodically denigrated the investigations into Trump, extolled Jan. 6 riot defendants and attacked the criminal justice system — especially in Washington.

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On his podcast, he has said D.C.’s jury pool is “corrupted” by “big government plus big media plus big tech.”He also suggested some federal district judges there engaged in a “big lie” of “nonstop politically-motivated lawfare” and encouraged Congress to rein in the court’s jurisdiction.

Martin was a “Stop the Steal” organizer involved in the planning and financing of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally, writing that afternoon from the Capitol area that it was “Like Mardi Gras in DC today: love, faith and joy. Ignore #FakeNews.” He was issued a subpoena by the House Jan. 6 committee but did not testify. He raised money and advocated for riot defendants, representing three of them.

Since taking office, Martin has emphasized violent crime.

“We will be first and foremost following the president’s direction to ‘make D.C. safe again,’” Martin emailed prosecutors last week, after being invited by Trump to the Jan. 22 White House pardon signing for two D.C. police officers who were prosecuted and convicted by his office for a fatal police chase of a moped driver in 2020.

But he also has threatened to investigate internal critics, and lashed out at the disclosure of his actions, emailing more than 800 prosecutors and support staff to stop talking about his emails.

“Wow, what a disappointment to have my email yesterday to you all was leaked almost immediately. Again, personally insulting and professionally unacceptable. I guess I have learned my lesson,” he emailed staff on Tuesday, the second time in a week he had made such a complaint, according to copies viewed by or read to The Post.

In this week’s note, Martin accused Akers, the prosecutor who just left the office, of “bad-mouthing our work (and me!).” Akers, who declined to speak to The Post afterward, said in cable news interviews that it was “appalling” that Martin advocated for members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers extremist groups by successfully urging a judge to undo their stay-away orders from Washington, and called his review of Jan. 6 cases a “wild goose chase.”

“We will need to make sure we have her records and emails,” Martin wrote.

Aaron Schaffer contributed to this report.

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>WASHINGTON, DC — NOVEMBER 05: Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a conservative political organization based in St. Louis, MO, speaks during a news conference outside the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. With many critical battleground states still not announcing the results of their vote count, the presidential election is still too close to call. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

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>Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office’s scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said.

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The Hunters Become The Hunted!

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What You Need to Know: The American people feel like the left is hunting them down.

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Ed Martin discusses The hunters become the hunted.

Ed Martin, the guy giving a speech when Schmuckles threatened Supreme Court Justices.

Ed Martin Is Acting DC AG, firing the J6 crew, and INVESTIGATING SCHEMER for threatening the Justices.

Ed Martin has six ways to nail Schmuckle Schemer.

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January 6 defendant killed by police days after Trump pardon

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An Indiana man who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot was killed by police during a traffic stop days later.

Matthew Huttle, 42, was shot and killed on Sunday when police pulled his vehicle over, and he allegedly resisted and ended up in an "altercation" with an officer, an Indiana State Police (ISP) statement said.

It remains unclear what he was being arrested for. Police added that Huttle had a firearm in his possession during the traffic stop.

Huttle was one of nearly 1,600 people who were last week given pardons or commutations by Trump for their roles in the riot on 6 January 2021 - when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building in Washington DC.

Indiana police said the officer involved in the shooting was placed on paid administrative leave.

"For full transparency, I requested the Indiana State Police to investigate this officer involved shooting," Jasper County Sheriff Patrick Williamson said.

Huttle, and his uncle Dale Huttle, were among the hundreds of people who sentenced for storming the Capitol more than four years ago.

Huttle was in the US Capitol for some ten minutes during the riot and was ultimately sentenced to six months in prison as part of a plea deal. He was released from custody in July 2024.

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''Edward R. Martin, Jr. Appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia''

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January 27, 2025

Press Release Monday, January 27, 2025

For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia

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WASHINGTON - On January 20, 2025, just minutes after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Edward R. Martin, Jr. was appointed and sworn in as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

“I want to thank President Donald Trump for trusting me to help him re-establish law and order in Washington, D.C.,” said U.S. Attorney Martin “It is the honor of my lifetime to accept his nomination as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. I pledge to work as hard as he does for America, even though no one outworks him. I want to thank my wife and family for carrying me to this day, and I pray to the Lord Jesus Christ for the continued wisdom and courage I have always found in Him.”

Martin was raised in rural New Jersey before attending high school in Jersey City. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a degree in English and a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. After college, he served as a Thomas Watson Fellow in Indonesia and spent two years as a Rotary Scholar in Rome while studying at the Gregorian Pontifical University from which he earned a Bachelor of Philosophy.

Following his studies overseas, Martin moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he earned degrees in law and ethics from St. Louis University. Immediately after law school, Martin became the Human Rights Office Director for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis where he supervised legal clinics for low-income St. Louisans. He served as a judicial clerk to Hon. Pasco M. Bowman, II of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and later worked as an associate with Bryan Cave LLP in their Washington D.C. and St. Louis offices.

For the past two decades, Martin has maintained his own law practice while engaging in public service, including serving as Chairman of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners, Chief of Staff to Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, and in senior positions at the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, including succeeding the late Phyllis Schlafly as President. Martin was Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, member of the Republican National Committee, and previously ran for elected office in Missouri.

Martin and his wife, an internal medicine physician specializing in geriatrics, have four children.

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Updated January 30, 2025

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