Ed Martin, the United States interim prosecutor for the Columbia district, told the staff on Friday that he has “expanded” the scope of his investigation into the management of the cases of the office of cases derived from the attack of January 6 at the Capitol, and has compared them with the internment of the Japanese government during World War II, according to an email obtained by ABC news.
Martin, whose nomination is still pending confirmation by the Senate, has called his investigation the “Project 1512”, referring to the burden of obstruction serious crime used against hundreds of accused of attack of the Capitol that was later written by the Supreme Court.
“We have contacted lawyers, staff and judges about this, and we look for your comments,” Martin wrote in his email. “One called the bipartisan rejection of 1512 accuses the” greatest failure of the legal trial since FDR and its attorney general put American citizens of Japanese descent in fields of prisoners, and seized their property. “I agree and that is why we continue to look at who ordered 1512 and why.
Ed Martin speaks in an event at the Capitol in Washington, on June 13, 2023.
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Fifteen of the 16 judges in the United States District Court for the Columbia district, including several appointed from Trump, previously confirmed the application of the position of 1512 for the defendants of January 6 whose conduct, the prosecutors argued, crossed the line beyond the minor crimes of invasion of minor crimes.
The Judge of the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by Trump, also joined Judges Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in dissident of the majority opinion of the Court to say that the obstruction of an official procedure charge was applied adequately to describe the certification of the Congress of the presidential elections.
Martin also told the staff in his email that “he has been asked to investigate the leaks that took place during the prosecutions of January 6,” which he said they were “used by the media and supporters as misinformation.”
“It was bad everywhere.
Pro-Trump supporters assault the United States Capitol after a demonstration with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The email is only the last of a series of Martin controversial actions that has thrown one of the most important and high -profile American prosecutors offices in the country.
Martin, a promoter to “stop the robbery” that represented several defendants accused in the assault of January 6 to the Capitol, has leveled numerous public threats to investigate democratic legislators and sent threatening letters to the critics of President Donald Trump.
Among those who have received letters from Martin in which he suggested that his actions were under investigation by his office are the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., Representative Robert García, D-Calif., And representative Eugene Vindman, D-VA.
Earlier this week, ABC News confirmed that Martin sent an informal letter to the younger brother of President Joe Biden, James Biden, asking about the broad preventive pardons that he and his wife received at the reduced hours of the Biden presidency.
