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| DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin to review Biden's outgoing pardons | |
| 2025-05-15 | |
[JustTheNews] "I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny," Ed Martin said.
"I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny," Martin told ABC News on Tuesday. "And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that's used correctly. So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did. "If they're null and void, I'm not sure how that operates, but I can tell you we've had already, I've had in my current position, or my position as US Attorney, we had been taking a look at some of the conduct surrounding the pardons and the Biden White House." In addition to the pardon attorney post, Martin will be the director of the department's Weaponization Working Group. President Trump pulled Martin's nomination for U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., because Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he would not support it, over Martin's involvement in the defense of people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to NBC News. Tillis is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was overseeing Martin's nomination. His no vote would have effectively prevented Martin's from getting a final confirmation vote. The DOJ attorney said that he doesn't believe that Biden's use of "auto-pen" for pardons is a problem, despite Trump suggesting that it makes them invalid. On Biden's last day in office, he pardoned his brother Jim, his sister-in-law Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, his brother Francis, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the House Jan. 6 committee. Related: Ed Martin 05/11/2025 Ed Martin Assumes Powerful DOJ Role: 'Greatest Job I Could Ever Envision' to Target Weaponization Ed Martin 05/08/2025 Trump's closest ally's chilling warning to the president about 'neocons' Ed Martin 03/21/2025 Husband of former congresswoman Cori Bush charged with wire fraud | |
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