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Zorro

(18,718 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 02:13 PM 5 hrs ago

Dipsh*t Ed Martin Says DC Bar Can't Punish Him, Because He Is The President

About a month ago, Wonkette told you the story of the latest Trump idiot/moron/mouthbreather/paste-eater dipshit lawyers to get in trouble with the bar for their conduct in defense of criminal tyrant Donald Trump. There was former acting US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, who keeps handing judges hearts cut out of construction paper that say “Best US Attorney EVARRR” and wonders why they and her local bar association don’t accept that as valid. Probably Trump Derangement Syndrome.

And then there is the real Captain von Dipshit himself, Ed Martin, the former “pardons czar,” former acting US attorney for DC (actually dumber than Pirro, amazingly), former weaponization czar (LOL), and current possessor of the most embarrassing case of Stupid Republican Man Face that orbits around Donald Trump’s asshole.

Martin is in trouble with the DC Bar for a little stunt he pulled last year where he wrote one of his trademark little bitchy boy letters to Georgetown University — this is when he was acting US attorney — accusing them of doing aggravated DEIs, failing to explain how they were doing aggravated DEIs, declaring he was going to go ahead and sanction them, and that he would be denying outright any applicant to any of DOJ’s “prestigious” — HAHAHAHAHAHAHA not anymore, MAGA fuckholes! — programs for law students.

To which Georgetown replied ACTUALLY you cannot tell Georgetown what to teach, and ACTUALLY it is a violation of students’ constitutional rights to discriminate against them on the basis of “Georgetown.” The lawyer leading the investigation on behalf of the DC Bar explained that Martin violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution, and that he “knew or should have known that.” Which was a funny way of implying/saying explicitly that he’s stupid.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/dipsht-ed-martin-says-dc-bar-cant

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Dipsh*t Ed Martin Says DC Bar Can't Punish Him, Because He Is The President (Original Post) Zorro 5 hrs ago OP
Trump appointee Ed Martin claims executive privilege in bid to evade misconduct charges LetMyPeopleVote 1 hr ago #1

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,246 posts)
1. Trump appointee Ed Martin claims executive privilege in bid to evade misconduct charges
Thu Apr 9, 2026, 06:30 PM
1 hr ago

This is a dumb argument

Trump appointee Ed Martin claims executive privilege in bid to evade misconduct charges www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T21:06:48.212Z

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-ed-martin-washington-dc-misconduct-charges-defense/

Ed Martin, the hardline MAGA Republican serving as President Donald Trump’s pardon attorney, is attempting to claim executive privilege in a bid to evade misconduct charges from attorney ethics regulators in Washington, D.C.

In a wild new legal filing this week, Martin lashed out against the D.C. Disciplinary Counsel, which polices attorney misconduct in the nation’s capital, alleging that its ongoing ethics case against him violates Trump’s authority.

Martin’s astounding arguments appear to claim that the president and federal attorneys are indistinguishable and that any attempt to hold Department of Justice (DOJ) officials accountable for misconduct amounts to an unconstitutional attack on the president’s authority.....

Among them, Martin said he would argue in federal court that the Disciplinary Counsel’s probe violates Article II of the Constitution because the president and federal attorneys are, in essence, synonymous.

“The President’s exercise of his authorities under the Take Care Clause through his U.S. Attorneys cannot be interfered with or hobbled by harassing and pretextual enforcement actions,” Martin argued.

“The President of the United States is the client of all attorneys appointed pursuant to the President’s Article II authority, and every executive branch attorney is bound by the President’s decisions concerning the objectives of the representation defined by their respective appointments,” he continued.
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