Ed Martin, the controversial acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is waiting for the Senate to confirm him for the ...

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 defended Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters, was nominated by the president ...

The nomination of Mr. Martin, who stood in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a full reversal for an office that formed the core of one of the Justice Department’s most complex investigations ...

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 ...

Martin's time in Missouri politics included unsuccessfully running twice for statewide and congressional office. In the ...

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

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