“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!
I’m at the Capitol right now. Abd I was at the POTUS speech earlier. Rowdy crowd but nothing out of hand. Ignore the #FakeNews
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 :
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.
The DC Bar is such a blatantly Democrat-run political organization. Thank God I’m not a member, and trust me, I never will be. https://t.co/XfRkVzOdgv
