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Ed Martin Loses Mind, Catches Bar Complaint – Above the Law

(Photo
by
Al
Drago/Getty
Images)

“Eagle”
Ed
Martin
has
done
a
lot
of
crazy
stuff
in
his
career,
but
fighting
a
bar
complaint
by
demanding
to
speak
to
the
judges
of
the
DC
Circuit

mano
a
mano

may
be
the
craziest!

This
is
a
guy
who

refused
to
comply

with
the
state’s
Sunshine
laws
and
cost
Missouri
almost
$2
million.

He
blew
up
Phylis
Schlafly’s
Eagle
Forum
and

got
her
sued

by
her
own
family.

He
led
the
Missouri
Republican
Party
in
2012,
a
year
in
which
Democrats
swept
races
for
governor,
secretary
of
state,
attorney
general,
treasurer,
and
US
senate.

And
that
was
before
he
got
to
Washington
DC!

After
descending
on
the
nation’s
capital
on
January
6,
Martin
was
nominated
as
US
Attorney
for
the
District
of
Columbia

a
position
he
only
held
for
four
months
because
the
Senate
refused
to
confirm
him.

Do
you
know
how
crazy
you
have
to
be
for

this
Congress

to
block
you
as
Republican?
These
people
blessed
Robert
Kennedy
as
Secretary
of
Health
and
Human
Services!

But
no
matter,
Trump
shuffled
him
over
to
Main
Justice
and
gave
him
a
stack
of
titles.
He’s
the
pardon
attorney.
He’s
a
special
attorney
for
mortgage
fraud.
He’s
associate
deputy
attorney
general.
He’s
director
of
the
DOJ’s
“Weaponization
Working
Group.”
And
he
still
finds
time
to
creep
around
New
York
Attorney
General
Tish
James’s
house
in
his
trench
coat
with
a
camera
crew
in
tow.

He
seems
to
have
finally
gotten
himself
banished
to
the
provinces
after

sharing
grand
jury
information

about
the
investigation
into
California
Senator
Adam
Schifff

But
before
that,
he
managed
to
write
so
many
letters!
To
Democratic
politicians
for
speech
or
debate
crimes.
To
the
Journal
of
the
American
Medical
Association,
the
New
England
Journal
of
Medicine,
Obstetrics
and
Gynecology,
and
CHEST,
which
is
published
by
the
American
College
of
Chest
Physicians,
for
various
DEI
violations.
To
medical
marijuana
vendors.
To
Wikipedia
for
poisoning
AI
scrapers
with
woke
copy.

But
it
was
his
pen
pal
at
Georgetown
University
Law
Center
that
got
him
in
trouble
with
the
DC
Bar.

A
year
ago,
Ed
fired
off
a
letter
to
Dean
William
Treanor
demanding
that
the
school
immediately
cease
all
DEI
initiatives
and
proactively
informing
the
school
that
none
of
its
graduates
would
be
considered
for
positions
at
the
DOJ.
Treanor

spanked
him

for
being
a
bad
lawyer
and
a
bad
Catholic
and
a
bad
American

check,
check,
and
check!

and
Martin
wandered
off
to
piss
into
the
wind
somewhere
else.

But
that
wasn’t
the
end
of
the
story,
because
retired
California
judge
Phillip
Argento
(GULC
’75)
was
so
incensed
that
he
fired
off
a
complaint
to
the
DC
Board
of
Professional
Responsibility.
At
which
point
Ed
Martin
LOST
HIS
DAMN
MIND.

From
the

Specification
of
Charges
:

Instead
of
responding
to
Disciplinary
Counsel’s
letter,
on
March
31,
2025,
Mr.
Martin
sent,
ex
parte,
a
letter
to
the
Chief
Judge
and
the
Senior
Judges
of
the
District
of
Columbia
Court
of
Appeals.
In
that
letter,
he
stated
that
he
would
not
be
responding
to
Disciplinary
Counsel’s
inquiry,
complained
about
Disciplinary
Counsel’s
“uneven
behavior,”
and
requested
a
“face-to-face
meeting
with
all
of
you
to
discuss
this
matter
and
find
a
way
forward.”
He
copied
the
White
House
Counsel
“for
informational
purposes
because
of
the
importance
of
getting
this
issue
addressed.”

And
although
the
judges
told
him
immediately
that
ex
parte
communications
were
inappropriate
and
he
should
continue
with
the
process,
he
kept
on
firing
off
notes
to
the
court

two
more
times
,
all
the
while
ignoring
letters
from
the
Disciplinary
Counsel.
Notably,
Martin
cc’d
the
White
House
Counsel
on
the
first
nastygram,
which
raises
some
interesting
questions
about
the
ethical
advice
David
Warrington
is
giving
the
administration.

So
now
Eagle
Ed
has

two
charges
,
one
for
violating
the
First
Amendment
and
punishing
GULC
for
its
protected
speech,
and
one
for
communicating
ex
parte
with
a
judge
during
a
proceeding.
Perhaps
this
is
why
Attorney
General
Pam
Bondi
has
been
desperately
trying
to

take
over
state
bar
complaints
!

Meanwhile
at
DOJ,
they’re
trying
to
pretend
that
this
is
all
political,
rather
than
a
spectacular
fuck-up
by
an
incompetent
nitwit
who
should
never
have
been
let
in
the
building.

Wow,
that
sounds
like
a
dare
to
the
New
York
Bar,
doesn’t
it?





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