Trump DOJ Lawyer CHARGED in DC Bar Ethics Investigation - Glenn Kirschner

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All the "King's" Men: Trump's lackeys and their disservice to America

It seems like sometimes accountability can take forever. And then, it comes all at once.

Remember all those Trump lawyers who got disbarred as a result of what they did during Trump's first presidential rodeo: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, and others?

Well, some other lawyers didn't really pay attention to that cautionary tale. One of them is Ed Martin. Donald Trump tried to make Martin the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia – the city's top prosecutor – but Senate Republicans said, 'not so fast, that's a bridge too far even for us', and refused to confirm Martin.

And now, accountability is coming for Ed Martin,

The New York Times just reported: "DC Bar begins disciplinary proceedings against Ed Martin. A new legal filing accused Mr. Martin, a senior Justice Department official, of an unethical pressure campaign against Georgetown University."

I just sat down to discuss this development with my friend and fellow former career federal prosecutor, Kevin Flynn, in a segment we call The Prosecutor's Verdict. - Glenn Kirschner - 03/12/2026.


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1. From Way Out Here, Few if Any of the Claimed Homo sapiens Willing to Rally 'Round This Convicted Criminal

In his second attempt at mimicking a human, on their best days rise to the level of "lackeys!" By comparison, the laughingstock Rudy was a paragon, albeit not even qualified to run his routine as an afterthought to Abbott and Costello. Maybe Stooge #7?

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2. MS NOW- The DOJ's ethics proposal would have a corrupt fox guarding the henhouse

If Attorney General Pam Bondi has her way, an extremely important guardrail could disappear.

The DOJ’s ethics proposal would have a corrupt fox guarding the henhouse
If Attorney General Pam Bondi has her way, an extremely important guardrail could disappear.

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State bar associations play an important accountability role across the country. Trump administration lawyers know that their legal licenses are subject to censure, because practicing law in the United States remains a privilege, not a right. But if Attorney General Pam Bondi has her way, even this guardrail could disappear.

Last week, Bondi proposed a new rule that would allow the Department of Justice to take over investigations of alleged attorney misconduct of its own lawyers. State bar authorities would have to pause their investigations while the Justice Department conducts its own probe. The rule gives the DOJ the ability to delay or even derail a state investigation.

It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that there has been a series of state ethics complaints filed against Trump administration lawyers, including Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and federal prosecutors handling immigration cases. President Donald Trump’s polarizing pardon attorney Ed Martin is currently facing just such a complaint from the D.C. Bar.,,,,

Federal law requires all federal prosecutors to comply with the ethics rules of the state where they practice law, including the District of Columbia. The new rule requires Justice Department lawyers to obey the substance of their state’s ethics rules, but gives the DOJ the authority to investigate violations. According to the proposal, whenever a bar grievance is filed, “the Department will have the right to review the allegations in the first instance and shall request that the bar disciplinary authority suspend any parallel investigations until the completion of the Department’s review.”.....

In the decades since the Watergate scandal, the Justice Department has conducted robust investigations of allegations of ethical misconduct by its own attorneys and imposed discipline. In fact, it was common for state bar authorities to wait for the DOJ to complete its investigations before initiating their own probes, because the federal process held attorneys to standards even higher than state ethics rules. But that landscape changed last year, when Bondi fired the head of the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility and its chief ethics officer. Now there is a risk that DOJ lawyers will be even further sheltered from meaningful ethical oversight.

Bondi has fired the officials at the Office of Professional Responsibility to give the MAGA assholes free reign in violating their ethical responsibilities. These proposed regulations will be challenged if adopted