As interim head of the office, Martin is now aiming to assume the U.S. attorney role in Washington, D.C., permanently.

The acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., has vowed to be Trump’s personal lawyer and is gutting his office of those who ...

While Trump administration officials were preparing to install a seasoned conservative lawyer as the top prosecutor in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activist Ed Martin, who echoed Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and ...

The nomination of Mr. Martin, who stood in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a full reversal for an office that ...

I’ll say it again: My Jan. 3 column predicting that D.C. would soon be in the new U.S. attorney’s crosshairs fell short of ...

The letters are part of what the interim U.S. attorney called “Operation Whirlwind,” a new initiative to prosecute threats ...

Martin had been serving as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on an interim basis since just after Trump, a ...

Denise Cheung, a longtime Justice Department official who led the office’s criminal division, said Ed Martin asked for her ...

Former perennial candidate and state GOP party head, now acting U.S. attorney in Washington, becomes embroiled in flap ...

And it looms with what would seem to be a much lower-profile nomination: Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. If you haven’t heard of Martin yet, it’s quite likely that ...