March 11, 2026
D.C. Bar Goes After Ed Martin
Timothy Birdnow
The D.C. Bar has filed ethics charges against Ed Martin for sending a letter to Georgetown University Law Center demanding an end to DEI practices.
The bar could revoke Martin's law license.
This is but another example of what we are up against; the Left has weaponized the law to the point where if you resist anything they do they will come after you legally and with a vengeance.
Martin, the former interim D.C. District Attorney, whose appointment was spiked by Thom "Up Yours" Tillis, is accused:
The office that polices attorney misconduct in Washington, D.C., has filed ethics charges against Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin, after Martin last year sent a threatening letter to the Georgetown University Law Center that raised questions about its diversity and inclusion policies while he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, according to court filings made public Tuesday.
In a Feb. 17 letter to the law school, Martin told university officials that a whistleblower claimed Georgetown was teaching DEI and asked about the practice. Without waiting for a response, he told the school he was imposing sanctions by instructing his office staff not to employ any students from the school as fellows, interns or employees at the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C.
In response, the school’s now-former dean, William Treanor, told Martin, who is a devout Catholic, that his letter represented "an attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution.”
In filings made in the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Board on Professional Responsibility dated Friday and made public on Tuesday, Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil” Fox III of the D.C. Bar alleged that Martin’s conduct as a government official violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution by making demands that the law school change what it teaches students and how it teaches them.
It is long-standing policy that the U.S. government impose it's will on what and how universities teach their students because these institutions take Federal tax dollars and it is established law that this money comes with strings. And of course there is no right to a job after you get out of school, and if the government chooses not to hire graduates from a particular school there is no Constitutional prohibition making this policy illegal. Lord knows the Left has used these tactics repeatedly on the right over the years. It's part of WHY the universities are universally filled with Leftists now; it was "diversity" or die.
So what Martin did was not at all unethical or criminal but the Left will go after him anyway. And even if he wins in court he will have to waste huge amounts of time and money. As they say, the process IS the punishment.
So we are a LONG way from victory as of yet. The radicals are waiting in the wings, ready to reassert themselves as soon as Trump exits the stage. And even now they are going to go after some of the MAGA folks, a foreshadowing of what is to come once they take back power.
The DOJ should open investigations into the D.C. Bar in retaliation. It's sad it has come to this but there has to be tit-for-tat, even if it's not always a clear cut violation. EVERYONE needs to be afraid to use lawfare to their political advantage. Mutual Assured Destruction. It worked with the Soviets and it will work now, provided we have the balls to use it.
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