President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the powerful U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. has hit a roadblock in the Senate after a key Republican said he would not vote in favor of the controversial nominee.
The president has nominated Ed Martin, a conservative lawyer who supported Trump’s Stop the Steal movement in 2020, advocated for lesser sentencing for January 6 defendants, appeared on Russian state media networks multiple times and used social media to threaten critics of Elon Musk.
