Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Probes January 6 Cases

“A top Trump-appointed prosecutor has opened an internal review of the Justice Department’s decision to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses in connection with the Capitol attack,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Acting U.S. attorney Ed Martin in Washington, D.C., asked prosecutors in an email Monday to turn over files, documents, notes, emails and other information related to the cases, the people said, which included charges against some of the most violent rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021…”

“Within the U.S. attorney’s office, some prosecutors viewed Martin’s inquiry as an opening salvo in the Trump administration’s stated aim of investigating the Jan. 6 investigators.”