Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ramped up a campaign this week against Edward Martin’s bid to become U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, pushing for a hearing on the conservative activist who represented defendants charged in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
While the committee doesn’t typically hold hearings for U.S. attorney nominees, Martin’s record “merits heightened scrutiny,” the Democrats said in a letter Wednesday to Chairman Charles E. Grassley.
The Iowa Republican for now denied that request during a committee meeting Thursday, after Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the panel’s top Democrat, spent minutes tearing into Martin’s nomination.
