Trump’s Pick for Top DC Prosecutor Faces GOP Roadblock as Deadline Nears

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington is facing steeper odds after a key Senate Republican announced he won’t support the confirmation of Ed Martin—putting the nomination in jeopardy just two weeks before a critical deadline. “I’ve indicated to the White House I wouldn’t support his nomination,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill on May 6. Martin, a conservative attorney and longtime activist, was appointed acting U.S. attorney by Trump on Jan. 20. His interim term expires on May 20, and without Senate confirmation, the decision on a permanent replacement will fall to a panel of federal judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, led by Chief Judge James Boasberg....