Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: April 1, 2025 / 6:32 PM EDT


President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination. Martin, a "Stop the Steal" advocate and former defense attorney who represented U.S. Capitol riot defendants, is Mr. Trump's nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and

Sen. Adam Schiff, a first-term Democrat from California, plans to hold his nomination amid a growing number of controversial statements and decisions by Martin. The position is among the highest-profile and most powerful federal prosecutor positions in the U.S. Martin, who refers to himself as "Ed the Eagle," has been serving as acting U.S. attorney for D.C. since Inauguration Day.

Senators have the power to invoke a hold on a presidential nominee, a maneuver that can slow or stall consideration of a nominee for days or weeks. Precious Senate floor time is often needed to overcome holds on presidential nominees.

"For the past nine weeks, Ed Martin has consistently undermined the independence and abused the power of the US Attorney's office in DC, openly threatening and intimidating political opponents, dismissing charges against his own clients, firing public servants for their roles in legitimate investigations and using his office as a cudgel to chill dissent and free speech," Schiff said in a statement to CBS News. Former staff in the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. have criticized Martin for dismissing prosecutors who handled cases involving U.S. Capitol insurrectionists.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominee-u-s-attorney-in-d-c-ed-martin-blocked-adam-schiff/

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More of this please. People like Carnival Cruz and SPAWN of RON Paul do this routinely.

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1. Bravo! First Booker, now Schiif. Let's see them spines!

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2. Good! Tactics like this is how the Republicans managed to seemingly

rule even though they were the minority party. We need to fight back and do whatever is necessary to muck up the works!!!

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3. Great move, but in reality....

... there is no such thing as an "indefinite hold". What this means is the confirmation cannot proceed by unanimous consent, and they will have to go through regular order.

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4. They normally do the major nominations by "regular order"

This is not like Stuporville's holds on promotions where there are normally "unanimous consents" unless someone "objects".

With this kind of hold, Schiff can demand that the nominee provide "answers to his questions" by whatever date, and keep doing that for a long long long time if he feels he is not "getting an answer".

I watched Carnival Cruz do that bullshit. For example -

Cruz puts hold on Biden’s pick for Middle East lead at State

By Alexander Ward and Andrew Desiderio

10/19/2021 01:33 PM EDT
Updated: 10/19/2021 04:26 PM EDT


Sen. Ted Cruz has placed a hold on President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the State Department’s Middle East bureau, escalating the Texas Republican’s battle with the administration over diplomatic nominations and kicking off a sensitive, new policy fight.

In an email obtained by POLITICO, Cruz’s team explained to Senate Foreign Relations Committee GOP offices that the lawmaker was seeking to delay the panel’s approval of Barbara Leaf, a top Middle East National Security Council official nominated to be the assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern affairs.

According to the email, Leaf didn’t answer three of Cruz’s written questions to the senator’s satisfaction, and in one case Cruz’s team claims the NSC official lied.

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The "master" a/k/a "Dr. No", was Tom Coburn.

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6. Thanks! That's very informative!

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7. Most welcome!

We gotta start using ALL of the tools the GOP used when they were thwarting Biden's nominees and agenda.

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5. if repubs start it, put it on hold...everything nt