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Trump DOJ Is Finally Taking On The Corrupt DC Bar Association

Federal lawyers cannot be held hostage by a lawfare apparatus that threatens their destruction for daring to represent GOP administrations.

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On Tuesday, word came that the legal disciplinary authority in Washington, D.C., was charging U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin with ethics violations, kicking off proceedings that could result in penalties up to and including disbarment.

In so doing, it might have just helped make the case for the action the Trump Justice Department recently initiated to begin to combat the weaponization of such bar disciplinary tribunals — namely, against conservatives.

The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility alleges that while serving as U.S. attorney last year, Martin — a conservative stalwart long loathed by the left — violated local rules of legal conduct in probing Georgetown Law School for its alleged continued promotion of DEI in its curriculum, and refusing to hire those affiliated with the school until it purged DEI accordingly.

“Lawfare/Barfare is alive & well,” said Jeff Clark, the recently departed chief Trump administration regulatory officer. “Apparently, DC’s Disciplinary Counsel cares not that 1) DEI is an unconstitutional violation of equal protection of the laws; & 2) the President had issued an executive order banning it if an institution takes federal money. Blatantly political.”

Martin himself had questioned that very Disciplinary Counsel, Hamilton P. Fox III, the former head of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, about whether his tribunal was operating politically in correspondence from February 2025. Martin wrote a letter to Fox then, suggesting that the Democrat-dominated panel might be targeting those with opposing viewpoints with unmerited ethics probes and seeking information to ascertain whether it was true.

He would cite the D.C. Board’s pursuit of a former Trump I Justice Department official — one who would face years of Kafkaesque proceedings over his own alleged ethics violations in faithfully serving the president in connection with the 2020 election challenge. That official was none other than Jeffrey Clark.

These are but two of the myriad, often dubious, and historically unsuccessful but nevertheless crippling complaints brought against conservative lawyers, typically by the left’s lawfare apparatus, before like-minded state and local disciplinary authorities across the country — a practice, “Barfare,” about which I reported last fall for RealClearInvestigations. By making life hell for conservative counselors by hitting them with such complaints,........

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