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2025-05-15 Government Corruption
DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin to review Biden's outgoing pardons
[JustTheNews] "I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny," Ed Martin said.
Interesting times. They were all so smug that they’d got away with it.
Ed Martin, who is leaving his Trump appointment as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., to become the Justice Department's U.S. pardon attorney, said that he will review former President Biden's outgoing pardons.

"I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny," Martin told ABC News on Tuesday. "And they need scrutiny because we want pardons to matter and to be accepted and to be something that's used correctly. So I do think we're going to take a hard look at how they went and what they did.

"If they're null and void, I'm not sure how that operates, but I can tell you we've had already, I've had in my current position, or my position as US Attorney, we had been taking a look at some of the conduct surrounding the pardons and the Biden White House."

In addition to the pardon attorney post, Martin will be the director of the department's Weaponization Working Group.

President Trump pulled Martin's nomination for U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., because Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he would not support it, over Martin's involvement in the defense of people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to NBC News.

Tillis is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was overseeing Martin's nomination. His no vote would have effectively prevented Martin's from getting a final confirmation vote.

The DOJ attorney said that he doesn't believe that Biden's use of "auto-pen" for pardons is a problem, despite Trump suggesting that it makes them invalid.

On Biden's last day in office, he pardoned his brother Jim, his sister-in-law Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, his brother Francis, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
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#1 You mean Autopen?
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