If you listened to Ed Martin naming the people within the lawfare community of DC operatives who are actively working to weaponize the legal system to block and attack reform efforts within the DOJ, then you likely understand the origin of these latest maneuvers.
Outgoing USAO Ed Martin, and current head of the DOJ ‘weaponization working group’ has revealed that Lawfare operators have filed ethics complaints in an effort to challenge his legal license. This is what happens when the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, doesn’t face down the internal lawfare operation within Main Justice severely enough.
(VIA REUTERS) – The lawyer President Donald Trump tapped to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor and then dropped in the face of Senate opposition, said on Wednesday he is facing a professional ethics investigation, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Interim Washington U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said in the letter sent to his staff on his last day on the job that he is under investigation by the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The office is in charge of investigating and bringing misconduct proceedings against attorneys in the district.
Martin alleged that Hamilton “Phil” Fox, the attorney investigating his conduct, had breached the confidentiality of the investigation by sharing a copy of the complaint with the department’s Civil Division.
“It is an outrage how they treat us and I will continue the fight against the weaponization of our law licenses against us,” Martin wrote in an email.
“I am taking on Mr. Fox head on. His conduct is personally insulting and professionally unacceptable.”
Fox declined to comment on Martin’s claims, citing confidentiality rules.
In the email, Martin attached a copy of a May 9 letter he sent to Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals asking her to investigate and suspend Fox, and to dismiss the complaint filed against him. Martin’s letter did not specify the nature of the ethics allegations filed against him.
There have been at least five formal ethics complaints filed against Martin that were made public by nonprofit watchdog groups, ethics experts and members of Congress during his brief tenure as interim U.S. attorney.
At least one of those complaints has since been closed, after Fox concluded that Martin did not technically violate disciplinary rules when he filed a motion to dismiss a case against a person charged with taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol whom he had previously represented in private practice. (read more)
If Blondi will not fire them, why does Trump not fire her?
Blondi, Ka$h, and BonJovi are there to prevent new DOJ attacks against Trump. They are not there for retribution.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, retribution means deserved and severe punishment.
Ah, Comrade, “JustUs” is Retribution for thee but not for me. It’s the democRat way.
The JustUs Dept Bureaucrazy is 90% democRat.
Bondi is Not Gaetz, and the Feral Bureaucrazy controls DoInJ and FIB, and ATF…… and the DC Feral Courts as well.
Welcome to the USSA.
No one in DC uses that term in that sense.
Obviously. But now we have a new attack.
Never thought of that, hmm.
Disagree.
That’s not who President Trump is.
Well, since this is an attack on Martin, it is an attack on Trump. So they’re not doing the job you cite, either.
It is an attack on Pr. Trump’s aides,,,,,the attack that is to be prevented is a “Impeachment” which some dimwit Dem. took action on the last few days, a much to the chagrine of the Dems, as they jumped him good.
POLITICS
It appears Blondi, Ka$h and BonJovi are not preventing attacks against Trump’s appointees. The US citizenry need better and the Three Cowbell Hair-o’s should provide it in sheltering POTUS appointees.
Either they hang together or they’ll hang together.
PDJT must know that he, his family and anyone that is in his inner circle will be persecuted to the fullest extent if he is unable to deep-clean the deep state.
2016-2024 was nothing compared to what will likely happen should the Dems take over the WH again any time soon.
He must know this.
If he fails to get the DOJ and FBI fixed, he and his family will pay the price the most.
He has always been the target of the “Establishment”, and has come out ahead throughout his life. He now has very good friends in another part of the world, where the Western Deep State has much less power.
Agreed.
My point was that he is likely very motivated to get this done – not just because it will save the Country, but also as it will directly lead to an increased and significant level of safety for himself and his family
So your experience in Government Politics is where, to give you such insight.
Bondi Kash and Bongino are there to prosecute criminals not prevent attacks on Trump . The media want people to believe anything these people do will be considered retribution which is incorrect , it’s called justice .
Justice Delayed is Justice denied. TIC TOC
2025 is 1775
Justice HAS to come by the rule of Law–( US Csonst)–otherwise you make yourselfe equal to you enemy and thereby lose.
Exactly why they are there and if they don’t start prosecuting known criminals the attacks will continue.
In the Tucker interview, Martin said we still need patience. He indicated they are working on charging the criminals.
With Martin’s comments, I gave them more time. The continued Lawfare used that time up.
Understand….But given that he system in DC is 90% corrupt, it’s going to take more than terminating a couple of guys a week to square it away. The clock is running and going to strike 12:00, and we’ll be back where we started from. The democraps/repugs do not play by the rules, but we do….
Time for a change…MAJOR change. Tear it down and rebuild…
that makes some sense
In other words, we’re not interested in “accountability” for people’s unethical, or illegal behaviors.
Justice is not retribution.
Can be, partly.
They are likely there as loyalists who won’t actively turn the agencies against Trump.
Whether they are sparring loyalists who will take it to Trump’s opposition remains to be seen. One can be a passive loyalist who refuses to lift a finger against one’s champion. But, not lifting a finger just means no active prosecution of the enemy, either.
Kind of like having a wide moat: you rest easy knowing the bad guys will have a hard time getting at you, and you also know the moat won’t flood the castle intentionally. But, the moat won’t get up and wash away anyone, either.
She doesn’t deserve that job, and needs to be replaced. Weak, and corrupt.
Optics. He already had to fire Mike Waltz.
The problem is Susie Wiles.
Certainly appears to be one of them.
Well, he dhidn’t fire Waltz, he promoted him to obscurity.
Given thw metric of the closer you are to the target, the tbicker the flak, he needs to develop a counter-punch strike team, so that whenever a member of his cabinet is attacked, this strike team counters with attacks on the credibility of the people attacking; thats what THEY do.
I remember Clinton’s attack dogs as being relentless and brutal. Carville, Paneta and various others. And very effective.
Promoting to obscurity is a far better choice than firing, IMO.
Keeps them busy and somewhere useless.
The strategy should be using appointments to positions where there Senate has no vote, if the Republican Senators fail to confirm in the first position first.
The second should be a more powerful & effective position of leadership & retribution. It is a “peace throught strength” method of helping the Senators & other Republicans understand the leverage of the Office of the President of the United States.
And, the beauty is: transparency & legal. This Administration doesn’t need to stoop to the level the Commie trash has played for the past 70 years creating the stagnant swamp that corrupts the entire world, known as District of Columbia!
Need several Lee Atwaters!
Eyes on Susie Wiles…
Wiles is wily.
Read the post again. These are “ethics complaints” filed by groups outside DOJ. The correct answer is for DOJ to launch a criminal probe and file obstruction of justice charges against the Lawfare groups.
Filing frivolous complaints is not legal. And since they are intended to impede his work, they are obstructing justice.
This doesn’t end until people start getting arrested. Look how fast the Tesla terrorism stopped once the handcuffs and perp walks started.
THAT is what Blondi needs to be doing. Make them spend so much time and money quashing subpoenas and search warrants that they go broke.
Every good and effective parent knows that ignoring bad child or adolescent behavior only encourages more, and likely worse, bad behavior!
They also know that announcing consequences for bad behavior without enforcing those consequences, will lead to more, and likely worse, bad behavior!
ah…! Now that makes so much sense.
I don’t see Blondi, as you call her, doing anything other than what she has been doing.
Has the Tesla terrorism stopped or is it pushed out of headlines by new stories while it continues? That may be a true assertion, but I have not seen reporting to that effect. I would be pleased if what you say is true.
Almost anyone who has had their Tesla purposely damaged has posted the video of the perp on X so that the deranged democrat can be identified. I have not seen any videos in the last few weeks.
The “we hate Tesla and Elon” campaign did not work for the Resistance to MAGA.
They are moving on to other talking points.
Reddit was posting all the unhinged attacks, pushing the narrative of “hero” for the cause.
I have seen none the last couple weeks, which makes me believe the narrative has changed & they have lost this one.
Many Tesla drivers are leftish (in the words of South Park) smug self butt-aniffers. Not all, of course! But, the California-style smug has spread to your & my local small town with virtue signaling & political correctspeak are administrating & teaching at your local school & on the local school board.
UGH!
Now, Elon is conservative & has exposed the purple haired monsters who destroy the local school teachers car with clear camera views of their faces. They DEI-ed their own “talking points.”
😆
Yes some Antifa, Trantifa, activists were arrested. But the Tesla terrorism really only stopped when Elon stopped broadcasting DOGE findings on X that included corruption by Republicans in congress and he stopped linking things that data republican chick was finding that linked Republicans to USAID and other NGO corruption. Elon also stopped publicly supporting primarying current republican congressmembers.
“This doesn’t end until people start getting arrested”
It is beginning to look like two-tier justice is a fact of life. Even in MAGA administrations government crime is rewarded.
Then it needs citizen justice.
He could fire her for non-performance.
To provide American citizens hope that justice might eventually be served, pick a couple of easy cases and prosecute. Given the number of criminals that have been revealed, certainly she can find several to prosecute.
If she was fired, who would replace her?
For all her faults I think she is loyal to President Trump.
And if the next person wasn’t?…….that would be worse.
Sessions
Ken Paxton, AG for Texas.
He is needed as a Senator.
no.
Firing them may mess up the more important and broader investigation that will come out prior to the mid-terms.
THINK POLITICS
AG Bondi is doing her job well in tandem with President Trump. With the exception of the problems with Waltz, the whole Trump team is superb!
“AG Bondi is doing her job well”
LOL
You left out the best part of your quote; it should read like this:
“AG Bondi is doing her job well in tandem with President Trump.”
Completely different meaning.
Do you work for MSNBC or CNN, by any chance?
Just curious.
LOL
Hi Karen.
I quoted the relevant part, not the rhetorically “see the world as I want it to be” part.
Have a nice day.
You quoted the part that was “relevant” to your mindset.
Please do not disparage me.
I have always been known as a “straight-shooter”, ergo “Abigail Straight”.
Have a great life, after you grow up.
Ad rem, I hope you will take a look at this poster disparaging Abigail Straight.
IMO, Abigail started it.
She disparaged Landslide first by insinuating that he works for CNN, then had the gall to act like a victim.
Hang your britches by a nail……ya gonna turn me in too?
She’s as awful as awful gets.
Nobody and I mean nobody does anything without the approval of PDJT. The goal is to catch them. PDJT has the time and the people now.
“Nobody and I mean nobody does anything without the approval of PDJT.”
LOL
Mike Waltz says hi.
stiil following Qanon, i see. somebody on here said it well. Pam Sessions
Bondi prosecuted Zimmerman in Floriduh. She was at heart a Bushie Repub and media glamor gal.
Exactly! FL is itself a part of the Bush swamp.
If you think of the Bush family as a Cartel family/CIA/criminal organization, then you better understand that anyone in their orbit, i.e. Pam Bondi (former FL Attorny General is doing the job she is told to do. She doesn’t work for President Teump & she does NOT work for the American people…
She owes her political mentors political currency. That means she will protect those who she HAS to protect & punish anyone who is expendable to the Bushes strategic purposes.
The Bushes have been around for many, many, many years. They’re playing the long game.
Miss Pam is just a pawn who is placed in a position where she could be exceptionally effective at draining the swamp, but for some unexplainable reason just acts like her job is to do fox ops. She’s literally the fox in the henhouse. Let’s call her controlled opposition. She makes a show of herself for all the people who liked to watch the pretty girls on fox, but the is essentially doing very little to effect any change at DOJ or in any of the agencies that were weaponized against political opponents or anyone who dared question the validity of the 2020 election.
I hope she’s just a self-inflated distraction who is so clueless about what’s happening “behind the scenes” that she doesn’t notice when the real cases slap her in the face.
The people putting all this hope in Pam Bondi are the same one who wanted to vote for Nikki Haley, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, & couldn’t wait to watch Megyn Kelly on fox.
I hope Amefica is ready to MOVE ON from THAT swamp!
It will be interesting to watch for President Trump’s reaction, since I am very sure he has been apprised of the situation, regardless of where he is physically located globally.
No doubt, we will know sooner rather than later due to the earth moving under our feet as he makes his next move.
Exciting times.
So obvious that they are scared of Ed. Cockroaches are fighting back with their filth.
Well, since he’s a gubmint employee the gubmint must pay for his defense.
Blondi must take better care of PDJT’s pit bulls with goggles.
Why is Trump putting up with this? I suppose I should give him time to get home from overseas ….
He’s been briefed.
Give him a minute or two.
Yep. Trump’s indeed put together an exceptionally good team, especially given the Bidenoid horde yet to be purged. One can certainly understand the frustration with Bondi’s pace, but decency and fairness require a sophisticated appreciation of the caterwauling shit-storm that was Biden’s DOJ.
I don’t see how the familiar pose of crime fighter grandstanding helps her cause. Anything business-as-usual is the wrong message. Folks are looking for a ratkiller and a barn-cleaner-outer. Out with the fetid and in with the new. Reasonable folks know it’s gotta be awful bad in there right now. I can just imagine how pss’d Bondi is with what she’s already found.
It’s a rather prayerworthy situation. We should all do our part.
Hope she spares us the 110 FOX news appearance to explain to us 1st graders how breaking the rules can get you into big trouble and maybe even call your parents.
I wish folks would stop engaging in the circle firing squad.
Folks are so quick to demonize Pam Bondi or Kash Patel or Dan Bongino rather than the true enemies.
It is so tiresome that we shoot our own…
Put yourself back in the previous administration with Mayorkas and Co.
Do you not see how much better we are doing with Trump’s Cabinet Team?
Why not trust Trump that he has put the correct people in place?
Stop looking for low hanging fruit.
We are #WINNING!!!
Pro tip: many of “our” worst enemies are inside the wire in our own camp.
Wake up.
“many of “our” worst enemies are ”
People just like you.
Not these three.
It is really nothing more than calumny.
Sundance would disagree. And has. Exhaustively.
Are we not free men and free thinkers?
That is no argument to dismiss conclusive evidence, sir.
He is new around these parts?
Sundance has made it very clear how awful he feels Bondi is and it’s hurting Trump . Why can’t people agree with somebody who knows a hell of a lot more than any of us do instead of relentlessly coming to Bondi’s defense ?
She deserves none of it .
I repeat…are we not free men (and women) and free thinkers?
it was like that back in the good ole days…… now you must adhere to the borg’s thought only
(so MSNBC libtard)
Sometimes we need to listen to people much smarter than ourselves Bill . Most come hear to learn the truth about what’s really going on from somebody who knows a a lot more than us free thinkers Bill .
That’s why Sundance gets so many compliments , it’s because the majority just don’t have a clue about what the real truth is compared to him especially us free thinkers lol.
Your belief that everything’s fantastic and Bondi , Bongino and Kash can do no wrong and we’re winning is not reality based , this is the result of your free thinking and failure to grasp reality .
When you see a lot of people being prosecuted than you can say we’re winning . The governments 3 letter agencies are still jam packed with enemy combatants with many being reassigned instead of fired . We have a do nothing congress and we need big results BEFORE the midterms or we lose . That’s not winning Bill .
Treehouse regulars need to stop attacking people who post the obvious even when it’s not super positive because it’s reality . We need to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT every day not sit back and say everything is just splendid like you do Bill.
The whole concept of “winning” is challenging since its really an artificial construct.
Theres the infamous football game, one minute left on the clock, and the team kicking off is two touchdowns behind,..so the other team was “winning”, right?
Onside kick, recovered and run foin for a TD.Then kick koff return and in 2-3 plays another TD. And then a field goal.
So, reality is there is WON or LOST. And yet, we insist on, and need some kind of score keeping, to measure progress, during the battle or war.
If you see this war is being fought and won or lost, based on which side can arrest, prosecute and incarcerate the enemy, well then yes “they” are “winning”.
However, thats a foolish, narrow minded view of the war, IMHO.
Our enemy are Globullusts, who’s ideology calls for the elimination of the Nation State, and a centralied One World Gov.
Therefore its not just Democrats and Rinos we are fighting, its globullusts in charge of the EU, as well as 5 eyes, its the CCP and ulimately the sick, unscrupous banker/financiers that are neofuedalists, longing for a return of the Dark ages.
If you broadly accept this brief snopsis of the wae as accurate, J submit you can ready see that “how many incarcerated” is a useless metric.
If “the obvious” is so obvious, why does it need to be posted? Sundance has repeatedly urged all to be skeptical, I would surmise, even of him.
Sure.
Keep free thinking. Just don’t expect anyone else who doesn’t have their head in the sand to agree with you.
The evidence speaks for itself.
Either acknowledge the evidence, or admit you haven’t looked at it. Or, worse, admit that you’ve chosen to ignore it?!
Have read any of the Zimmerman case & Pambi’s role in that unjust prosecution?
It’s archived here…
Do yourself a favor & set aside some time to read up on Pambi’s history. You might change your view of her ability/reliability after getting to know her a little better.
Free think, but use brain <3
She may not deserve it, but she needs it because Trump needs her to get on the good foot. I just don’t think it’s possible to fully appreciate the treacherous malignant shit-storm that was the Bidenoid DOJ. There are people there who will sabotage and sandbag everything Bondi tries to do.
Trump needs her to prevail, and I’m with Trump.
Buckle up, folks. We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. The disease uncovered is mature and pervasive.
dx: seditious interruptus
Ditto with Kash at the FBI.
Let’s leave our host out of it. I do believe he is well aware of relaying his thoughts without you speaking on his behalf.
Aware should be able, not even sure how I managed that one.
…with receipts.
I always look at the receipts.
Q-shaped hopey changey is is still hopey changey.
America NEEDS quick, decisive legal action against those who have been subverting the law & order of our government at every level.
Cute TV hosts & cute TV news programming is a waste of time & a complete distraction from the actual work that needs to be done.
DJT is not the Messiah. He’s a terrific President–the best in my lifetime! But, he is capable of making mistakes & Q is a very entertaining psychological operation that’s keeping people tame.
I want to see the wicked squirm. I want to see justice prevail & good to triumph over evil! That will take work, not hope, unfortunately.
Agree 100%…and it’s getting very tiresome.
Oh ya I forgot…..3 D chess…🤮🤮
Thank you
The comments never used to be like reading MSNBC here at the treehouse….
it’s sad, because i used to come here to learn from the commenters who all seemed so smart and wise
now i just don’t usually bother.
You’ve grown smarter since being here so the comments don’t seem as smart to you.
New Treepers feel the way you use to feel.
The difference is in the quality of lessons being learned.
Here is where the problem mostly lies:
We have the hardest working President in US history and the laziest Republican Congress in US history.
Something has to give.
No, No, NO!
The Republicons in CONgress are NOT passive/aggressively failing to support President Trump out of “laziness, nor is it Greed, cowardice or fear::’
Its INTENTIONAL, 8
EXACTLY!
They are paid by lobbyists to vote for the bills that are written by the same lobbyists who work over on K-Street in DC!
At least 90% of senators & congresspeople are paid BY lobbyists.
They are required to keep this “equilibrium” or they get pushed out. The lobbyists pay both sides, so they NEVER lose. They always get their agenda passed. That’s how Washington DC works.
Washington DC is a city-state. They are governed by a different set of laws than the rest of America.
THAT is why there is a two-teired justice system. It’s why J6ers were prosecuted in a novel way. The swamp doesn’t want to get cleaned out. The swamp monsters are parasites who rely on YOUR & MY tax dollars to remain in power!
Four years might seem like a lot of time. It isn’t. Especially with the mid-terms coming in fast! If you think voter fraud was bad in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024. You ain’t seen nothing, yet! Without significant & decisive reform, 2026 mid-terms are going to be bold, blatant theft!
And, then where are we?
Where is Trump’s America First Agenda?
Where is MAGA? Republicans are, for the most part, just as bad & compromised as democrats 🙄, unfortunately.
Patience, in justice, will be America’s downfall.
Lazy or totally corrupt?
Yes.
Boy, Bill , you have some catch up reading to do. Say like several years worth, and so do the folks who gave a thumbs up.
Maybe because we are tired of the ..It’s coming
just wait..soon… and soon NEVER comes..this just wait
stuff is just to keep us quiet…
“…soon never comes”
Exactly. Wait for the Dirham report and it is a nothing, then Epstein files that are not disclosed, Hunter Biden’s coke in the White House, and on and on ….this is “waiting for Godot who never arrives…”
Our enemies attack quickly and makes criminal arrests; our side hems and haws and waits. Our enemies went for Roger Stone, the Mar a Lago, raid, J6 prosecutions, and for us nada.
oops – should read Durham report: and “make criminal arrests” – mea culpa, fat fingers
It is exactly the inaction from some on “our” team that will be our downfall. Think the republicans in the house who refuse to use their powers to put a stop to these corrupt judges. 4 years are all we have.
no. It’s a mistake to keep thinking the US has a two-party system or republicans=good v. democrats=evil.
In DC, 90% of people are evil. Pam Bondi has been compromised since her FL days. She willingly held hands with Obama’s DOJ Eric Holder. She prosecuted an innocent man for political clout. That is an indication of her character and her lack resolve to do right.
She could have resigned. She could have made a public display or resistance against the Obama anti-2a/diversity agenda. Pam Bondi chose not to do the right thing! Why? I don’t know. But, I choose to look at her objectively & will suspect her actions & motives from here on.
You do you.
Unfortunately, Bondi has no jurisdiction over this ethics board which is overseen by the DC Court of Appeals. She cannot fire anyone there. Given the political bias of the DC Appeals Court, rest assured that the place is stacked with every leftist imaginable.
What can happen, and it very well may happen is more exposure of this Ethics Board and it’s membership.
It’s DC politics and there’s more than one way to skin a cat.
There is no doubt that Ed Martin was expecting this or something similar, he did after all interview with Tucker, President Trump is most likely aware and they may even have expected this and just waiting for this to play out.
But, after this Tucker/Martin interview, I’m more inclined to believe Martin and President were expecting something like this and I will even go as far as to venture that AG Bondi was aware also. I really do not believe she is a stupid person.
No one has ever called her stupid.
Just corrupt. Which she is. As Sundance has shown, in depth.
Knock off the damn trolling!
You are not cute.
You are not funny.
Go home to Mommy; she’s calling you.
Knock if off….both of yas!
See below….
She is corrupt; the George Zimmerman trial is enough proof. It’s just a matter of how corrupt.
Ahhh, but Ron, inconvenient facts just get in the way of posters who are quick to “solve” the problems simply by firing anyone not quick enough or transparent enough for them.
Correct. But she CAN target those groups with a criminal investigation. Their goal is to obstruct justice by filing frivolous complaints targeting Martin.
A few FBI 2am raids at gunpoint should send the proper message. Along with subpoenas to determine if these efforts are part of a larger coordinated conspiracy.
Or maybe we can get Bondi some….. help…..I think Alina Habba’s assignment in NJ is temp. She’s a fighter….
After watching Ed Martin’s interview with Tucker, you can clearly discern why many think nothing is being done to put the deep state actors in jail. Give them time folks, give them time. One year from now our economy will be booming and people involved in lawfare will be in jail or out on bond
10 years of lawfare. I can give it 10 months for justice.
Understood and agreed. Patience is not a thing that I was gifted with…
Rest assured that this same ethics panel is already firing up investigations for Jeanine Pirro.
Allow me to clarify something.
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel is tasked with reviewing any ethics complaint filed by anyone at all against a member of the DC Bar.
It appears the ethics complaints at issue here were filed by nonprofit leftist groups and members of Congress, not by the currently serving bar counsel acting on its own.
Those complaints would need to cite specific breaches of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and support the allegations with some actual evidence in order to survive a preliminary review.
This is normal. FWIW, the DC Bar magazine has an entire section every month setting out disciplinary actions taken against attorneys who have fallen afoul of the ethics rules. By name, and spelling out the breach. It is a public action, and a public humiliation.
https://washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/mayjune2025/index.php#/p/42
Without diving into this in great depth, it appears that Mr. Martin’s complaint is not that ethics complaints were filed – there is no stopping that – but that bar counsel breached the confidentiality that is absolutely necessary to the performance of its work to prevent putting an imprimatur of truth on often scurrilous and inaccurate allegations by everyone from dissatisfied clients to unhappy opposing clients.
If the attorney in question deliberately and without some sort of legal authority did publicize an ethics complaint in such a way as to undermine Mr. Martin’s ability to perform his job, that would indeed be a very, very serious matter that might well result in a suspension of that person’s license to practice law, or even possible disbarment.
Same in PA.
It is only when the Disciplinary Board has made a decision on discipline is the Board’s decision made public. And sometimes not even then. The Board’s options are: Private Reprimand (a confidential letter to the lawyer), a Public Reprimand, which is posted on the website and cited in the bar magazine, Suspension (which is for a term of years, and reinstatement is not automatic – one must petition for it), and Disbarment.
The filing of the complaint and the Board’s investigation are confidential, mostly for the reason Alex1689 give: a lot of dissatisfied clients file complaints that don’t raise a violation of the Code of Ethics.
I knew one lawyer who was reported to our Board (by judge, yet), and got a private reprimand. He retired with a spotless record. Most of the lawyers in his firm never knew of the complaint and private reprimand.
The ethics investigator in Martin’s case should be removed from his post for violating confidentiality of disciplinary proceedings.
These people are deliberately acting against the constitutional power of the President of the United States to appoint people in the executive branch. The President should order the Department of Justice to arrest anyone making such false claims against his appointees. Make them defend themselves in both federal civil and criminal court proceedings. Bankrupt them and put them behind bars.
Can Bondi end the ethics investigation
Not without inviting an ethics investigation into her own involvement in the Zimmerman case and what she did.
Harsh but fair.
Indeed. And likely the very reason why she was pushed onto PDJT, as Sundance has feared.
”See!”, they would cry. “He nominated her! He had to have known.”
A sad state of affairs.
Which, of course, is why Sundance was so exhaustive about the requirements of each major nomination prior to any nominee announcement…
…that we might judge the quality of the nominee by the requirements set forth before the nomination.
Devoted and long-time CTH readers know this.
Rubio and Gabbard were maligned repeatedly and thoroughly here and elsewhere
Opinions are like bellybuttons…some are innies, some are outies, some are lint traps for the arrogant unaware
If the sweater fits…
Bondi wasn’t maligned.
She long ago compromised herself and brought that compromise into the Administration.
No.
Maybe not directly, but Bondi sure could go after people within her reach. Go after them enough to give others pause when they consider practicing lawfare.
The DC judiciary is where patriots are at greatest risk.
Blondi is at best incompetent and useless, at worst corrupt and complicit. My guess is the latter.
It’s like trying to eat a bowl of soup in a swarm of flies. Never ending.
I agree……been here a loooong time. Wondering where all you flies came from.
Unnamed “ethics experts”
Here’s one complaint: https://the65project.com/bar-complaint-against-edward-martin/
Their “about” page lists three people.
One founded Law Works, “a bipartisan nonprofit dedicated to supporting and protecting the Mueller Investigation.” She served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration and was the Finance Director of the Democratic National Committee and the first National Field Director of the Democratic Leadership Council.
One is “a veteran of Democratic and progressive political and legislative campaigns”. He was Vice President of the opposition research and communications super PAC American Bridge
Here’s another complaint: https://demandprogress.org/rights-organizations-file-comprehensive-ethics-complaint-against-ed-martin/
Their about page is Open Society orgs
Another complaint is from Senate Democrats Dick Durbin and Adam Schiff: https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-sens-schiff-durbin-senate-judiciary-democrats-file-misconduct-complaint-against-interim-u-s-attorney-ed-martin-with-d-c-bar/
Obviously these are all politically motivated.
They want Martin busy defending himself and not spending his time going after the government gangsters that Patel seems to be ignoring.
“There have been at least five formal ethics complaints filed against Martin that were made public by nonprofit watchdog groups, ethics experts and members of Congress during his brief tenure as interim U.S. attorney.”
I’m not sure what pam bondi could of done about those doing the lawfare complaints from outside of the DOJ..
j/s blaming AG Bondi is a stretch IMHO.
It’s not about this instance in particular it’s about Bondi’s failure to tackle lawfare head on from day 1 , she needs to be far far more aggressive and outspoken and she’s not and it’s a big big problem . She also completely failed to take on the judges and set them straight when they have swerved way outside their lane.
” This is what happens when the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, doesn’t face down the internal lawfare operation within Main Justice severely enough”
Sundance
Yes but what do you think CN?
Surely you have God given notions and opinions – yes?
I just wrote down what I thought in the post previous to yours Bill . I tend to side with people who are a lot smarter than I am on this subject and Sundance knows a hell of a lot more than I do about this stuff .
I have a few other exceptionally intelligent people I listen to also and not shockingly those people and Sundance are saying pretty much the same things and that is Bondi is making big mistakes that are causing the Trump administration a lot more problems than necessary .
Ah…think for yourself!
Gather information, discern, formulate.
But never regurgitate.
Be the master of your ship.
Not a pirate’s parrot.
Be free to think for yourself.
Test the spirits.
And if ignorant ask questions.
So many resources.
But do not hitch your wagon to one mule….
Many wild horses are in the great wide open.
Truth knows no bounds. Into the great wide wonder!!!!!!
Amen?
Oh no!
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What are we doing here at this blog Mr Bill? Sewing dissension against sundance, why are you here and why so arrogant a manner?
If someone pleas for time for the AG, FBI director to do their jobs………..why, when there is such obvious corruption to fight day one?
“sewing dissension against sundance” ha ha as if Sundance is the almighty word that can not be challenged ….that sir/madam is “borg” mentality which is usually accompanied by libtard type arguments against their narrative being challenged. which i do dare say is exactly what CTH comment section has become. (yawn)
everyone in a free thinking society is open to alternate view points and challenges, it’s how the best , smartest and strongest survive and truth becomes the ultimate winner . I suggest if you want the borg version that msnbc and cnn are more your speed.
CTH should remain a place of “free thinkers” and not get sucked into idol worshipers only.
Yawn? I agree that sometimes that is the case but it can also be the case where some here think they dictate to others how to be this or that…YAWN. Maybe you need to take your “free thinking” ars elsewhere and converse with other free thinking ars…sss
Whoooo.
CTH is Sundance’s blog. Others have contributed.
I have not seen anyone who “worships” Sundance. In fact, most who have been longtime readers, are literally Christians, from different faith groups. So, take that worshippy notion & stuff it someplace else.
It’s a silly accusation to claim that readers worship the person who brings levity to these discussions by citing actual sources & demonstrating he is doggedly following truth no matter where it leads.
We trust Sundance’s opinions because they carry validity that we do not find elsewhere. When a person demonstrates reliability & integrity it engenders trust. Trust should not be mistaken for worship, Deb.
We trust Sundance, not because he makes us feel earm & hopey about Pondi, etc. We trust him because he gives evidence of reasons why we can trust some & not others.
Most here on CTH trust Sundance because his character gives us reason to trust him. Most trust him because he demonstrates a commitment to be truthful, no matter the consequences.
Some Q-hopers love to play the puzzly/riddly-doo game & interpret the secret meaning of “Qdrops” that promise the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. But, reality is that many here would love that to be true, but we need to see the facts. We have to see the evidence. I want to lay eyes on the documents & see the signature, date & them. I want the record. I want it all to be legal.
If the cold-hard law is not enforced, we are screwed!
And, we don’t have much time.
Don’t think some recognize when psychologists fallacy is at play.
Communication is especially tough when you see the inferences of one’s statement but others do not.
Would some posters benefit from study of logical fallacies and reading and re-reading of a posters statements prior to unleashing their presumptive subjectives upon us all?
Looks like you be quoting others opinions Bill…..
Save your breath. Sounds foreign. Maybe AI.😉😉😉😉😉
Not foreign…American – a guy in New Jersey…
” Many wild horses are in the great wide open” Shakespeare you’re not..You all are, Bill, Bob, Joe,etc…ad nausem…
Bill doesn’t realize he is doing what he accused others of……not thinking for himself but is quoting another person. Any original thoughts Bill?
obviously free thinkers are “foreign” to these idol worshipers.
Who’s your idol? Guesses anyone? I will give you all one guess and she doesn’t have to look past a mirror.
Oh brother…
Aren’t you clever Bill. /s
Don’t ya think if Bondi were going after those within her reach, the ones outside, would think twice?
This man was also behind the persecution of Rudy Giuliani.
Joined the office of the DC Bar “disciplinary” office in 2017 from what is available online.
this is why the established corruptocracy allowed Blondi, but not Gaetz
No Joke. The Dems have voted in lock step against “everything” Trump. But yet could find it in the heart to give Blondi a pass. Not RFK, Not Gabbard, but Blondi and Rubio. Hope Rubio continues to show the dems that their vote was a big mistake.
Bondi gives me a headache.
You never saw them going after Durham this hard!
Hate to say it, but Blondi, Ka$h and BonJovi are all big do nuffins. Blondi has proven that the AG job is way over her head. I lost count, but more than fifty times on CNN but no arrests, no indictments, nada.
Yes, the FBI is sifting through thousands of hours of Epstein child porn video’s. That takes time. Really?
Honey, we don’t want to see those video’s, nor do we want to know the names of the children that were abused. We want to see arrests made of the politicians, congressmen, senators, former presidents and princes who are on the videos abusing those kids. And indictments, trails and perpwalks.
Trials can be held behind closed doors if the privacy of the victems is involved.
We want to see action from you, instead of seeing you talking on CNN that no one watches.
The tell is when they can’t make a single, first indictment. Yes, we want them “all”. But if you can’t even grab the lowest of the low-hanging fruit (cough, cough, Bill Gates or Bill Clinton), then you are complicit in a cover-up.
Oh, and how hard is it to blur faces.
Oh, and what happened to Hunter’s laptop and the child exploitation on there?
Oh, and the Congressional slush fund…
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What no one asks: where the hell do the DC courts, DC belonging to every citizen of the United States, and not itself a sovereign state, get off making up their own rules regarding how or when lawyers who otherwise are duly licensed in good standing in one of the 50 states are entitled to practice before them.
The District of Columbia is not a state, and notwithstanding the federal government allowing it to have a modicum of “home rule” for stuff like city ordinances, traffic violations, and the like, managed by the D.C. Superior Court, by definition, it is essentially a federal government jurisdiction. And the D.C. District court, and appellate court, handle federal cases.
And for that matter, a secondary and similar issue is the various different rules for admission to practice before other federal courts. Admission to one should be admission into all, albeit sometimes issues particular to a state spill over into the local federal court, so at least here there is some rational argument (the counter-argument being that no federal court is given this right under the U.S. Constitution.) But D.C. doesn’t even have this one argument; it is not a sovereign state.
Ed Martin is licensed in Missouri. DONE.
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Outhouse Counsel- You are wrong. The District of Columbia is a city-state. It’s like London City. It’s like Rome.
They are all city states.
They have their own sovereign laws.
We, the United Stated of America citizens, are subjects to the District of Columbia members.
It’s uncomfortable, I know. But, if we will throw off these globalist overlords, it will take a long time & a hard brutal, maybe bloody battle to prevail.
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Please don’t post nonsense. We are not Europe. We do not have “city states”. We are not “subjects”.
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How did the comments on this article (again) turn into whining about Pam Bondi?
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This is how:
“This is what happens when the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, doesn’t face down the internal lawfare operation within Main Justice severely enough.”
It’s time to give it a rest. Day 116.
Round about way, Bondi’s inaction to lawfare paves the way for the hit jobs on PT’s people.
Bondi has a place.
In the kitchen.
Barefoot…..
How come it always only happens to one side?
Bondi is occupying her position on borrowed time. Once Trump sets the economic table, her tenure should be short.
Hamilton “Phil” Fox
I remember that name.
This corrupt dirtbag was involved in helping Clinesmith avoid disbarment, which (apparently) usually happens in misconduct cases like this. He is also supposed to be a big democrat party donor.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/12/16/dc_bar_lets_convicted_fbi_russiagate_lawyer_back_in_good_standing_as_court_cuts_him_more_slack_807964.html
Indeed. I used to think Clinesmith just doctored an email to invert a statement of fact about Carter Page. His involvement ran far, far deeper of course (exposed here on CTH). That he (and others) was not imprisoned goes to the satanic claws of Judge Boasberg.
AG Bondi appeared on Newsmax yesterday with a demeanor more suited to a DOJ commercial than a serious discussion. She did not come across as serious or credible.
But we got the dudes that scratched the Teslas.
As Bannon likes to say FOX is news for stupid people…..follows that Bondi is AG for stupid people. Surprise me Bondi.
Remember when incoming Presidents used to just fire all the DOJ attorneys on Day 1?… it was to avoid all of this kind of mess.
I have no idea why President Trump doesn’t just can the whole lot and start over. There has to be a long list of willing, qualified applicants.
The rot goes far, far deeper than the pool of US attorneys. Bondi wakes up to a department with literally thousands of career civil servants undermining her. I don’t like her terribly, but no matter who is in that job, they are going to be facing the same systemic rot.
A very large and powerful firehose is what is needed. And someone who can handle the pressure. That is not Bondi, for certain. A Matt Gaetz, perhaps, or a Ken Paxton. Heck, even a Josh Hawley – if his Senate presence weren’t so crucial. There are very few who aren’t catastrophically compromised in Washington.
It’s not the attorneys, it’s the embedded ticks that suck the blood and poison the judicial process.
Sometimes an aggressive cynic is the worst form of parasite. No cardinal ideas. No constructive contributions. Too often it’s an exercise in malignant vanity masquerading as snark.
Pam, is way over her head and why NO ONE will be held accountable for the TENS of THOUSANDS of VIDEO let alone anything else DS related.
Huge mistake IMO………..
Interesting interview with him on Tucker.
Sounds like the ‘Office of Disciplinary Counsel’ needs to be investigated
I think this statement by Sundance himself steered everyone’s comments toward Bondi
“This is what happens when the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, doesn’t face down the internal lawfare operation within Main Justice severely enough.“
PDJT needs to replace Bondi. Make her Ambassador to Canada.
Put someone like Joe Digenova in there.
Digenova and Toensing were part of the tick-tock club during President Trump’s first term.
This is the guy “they” fear…certainly not Blondi…
Hamilton P “Phil” Fox III, chief prosecutor, non-profit watchdog groups, (that’s rich) and members of CONgress – Ed is already drawing them out. This could be fun to watch play out.
The Bondi vitriol here is a sickness. Get over it and move on before it consumes you.
Nah. I don’t like posers.
Vitriol is for ineffective posers.
Get over the vitriol of the vitriolic, please.
Let’s have this Civil War right now.
The “D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel”. Sure hasn’t done much about rogue Lawfare Attorneys… and now they want to investigate Ed Martin?!
WTAF?
They do not choose to investigate or not investigate. They must investigate any complaint filed with their office.
Period.
If one of their investigators, Mr. Fox, violated confidentiality, that is the problem.
Unless you don’t want to be able to have the bar be required to investigate an ethical complaint lodged by a judge, a client, or anyone else?
Let’s be clear.
– The process is not the problem
– Bar disciplinary action resides in the highest court to which an attorney is admitted in that state or jurisdiction. In this case, that is the local, not federal, DC Court of Appeals. The Disciplinary Office does the investigation when a complaint is filed, screens out the obvious crazy ones, fully investigates the real ones, and makes recommendations to the Court of Appeals about whether a breach occurred and what disciplinary measure it recommends. Any action taken against an attorney is by the DC Court of Appeals itself.
– The Attorney General of the United States has zero input and zero role in a DC Court of Appeals bar disciplinary matter. Her interjecting herself here would be extremely inappropriate. People who used this post to launch into anti-Bondi tirades about this particular matter with Mr. Fox are either ignorant of the process or have an obvious agenda of circular firing squad.
– in general, disciplinary investigations in most States are undertaken by local attorneys who volunteer for the task, as a matter of the bar as a group helping to discipline itself. I do not know whether Mr. Fox is a paid staffer or a volunteer, but I do know staff and panels are sworn to absolute confidentiality until and unless the Court of Appeals takes action.
Might there be a violation of criminal law for disclosing internal documents in a disciplinary matter? I don’t know. I doubt it. The remedies are probably civil (cause of action for defamation or tortious interference somehow) and
. . . . bar discipline.
If releasing this prevents Ed from doing his job, which it is, then, it’s not far fetched to say they are obstructing justice. The Dems set the precedent for obstructing justice pretty low when they used that as an impeachment basis. So, I say charge them and force them to spend their money to get them out of the legal battle….use lawfare against them.
I think it’s a very plausible tool in the tool box. If it holds up great; if not, then, suck as much of his bank account down as possible.
Hamilton Fox. Yale? Harvard?
From the firm Hamilton, Fox, and Henhouse.
This lawfare group is meeting and planning ways to use the law. It seems like there is a case for racketeering.
Did Hamilton “Phil” Fox violate the law by leaking materials from an on-going investigation … either to the Civil Division and/or the Media (i.e. Reuters “who saw a letter” or one of their media buddies)???
Hello … Ms Bondi, you do realize that this is “Lawyer” Hamilton Fox and NOT Fox News .. Right??
She appreciates you making that clarification; she was getting ready for another interview, anytime she here’s Fox, the make-up artists come out and she dolls herself up.
It certainly do appear the Damsel, Injun and Bag o Donuts are playing as weak sisters to the Swamp Monster.
Powder and shot dry, fields of fire defining and being cleared.
I see a lot of infighting here on Treehouse about Bondi and Patel.
Put that aside for a moment and the question is what’s Trumps next move to combat the deep state actors doing this?
How does one set aside Bondi and Patel?? They ARE the President’s PRIMARY means “to combat the deep state actors” within the DoJ and who are supposed to protect the assets the President puts in place to combat the deep state.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/14/el-chapo-family-enter-united-states/83619614007/
Retribution will come once more important matters like illegal immigrants deported and the economy gets fixed are completed. We need to be patient.
illegal immigrants are the job for Noem, ICE, Holman
Maybe he shouldn’t have gone on the Tucker Carlson show and talked about that he plans on doing.
this is how we know he’s the real deal.
I don’t like to be negative but, Blondi is worthless.
And Ca$h isn’t far behind.
So how to we pressure the administration to get rid of this blonde bimbo excuse for an attorney ???