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

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

Martin was a leader of the “Stop the Steal” movement—and is now targeting prosecutors who went after the Jan. 6 rioters he ...

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

A conservative activist who echoed Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6, 2021, ...

Ed Martin, a conservative lawyer who supported the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rioters, was nominated by President Donald Trump as ...

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

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

The former January 6 defense attorney was initially brought in on an interim basis, but he's impressed the boss.

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Ed Martin was in the mob outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, posting on social media that the violent riot that day was marked by “faith and joy.” He has often echoed President Trump’s ...

Denise Cheung, a longtime Justice Department official who led the office’s criminal division, said Ed Martin asked for her resignation after she resisted his demand to tell a bank not ...