We learned this afternoon that several Democratic members of the US Senate filed a Request for Disciplinary Investigation with the DC Office of Disciplinary Counsel against Interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin.

They have cited a laundry list of potential violations, including the earlier-reported conflict in which Martin (as interim USA) moved to dismiss a January 6 case against Joseph Padilla, who was represented by Martin. They also cited several instances in which Martin may have violated DC Rule 8.4(d) for engaging in “conduct that “conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice,” primarily due to tweets and other public conduct threatening to prosecute everyone from government employees who “interfere” with Elon Musk’s DOGE “work,” to Jack Smith and his lawyers (which we also previously reported on).

Now, I do not practice in DC nor am I familiar with how disciplinary complaints work there. I also do not know whether it is common in DC for grievances to be filed by a group of public officials who are not judges; it is not common here, to say the least (unless there are a bunch of filings that go away privately and are not amplified by either side; we’ll never know about those). I guess we’ll stay tuned.