The Senate looks likely to sink the nomination of Ed Martin, President Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney for D.C., leaving his future in doubt amid a pressure campaign on the GOP from the president.

Martin, who is already serving as interim U.S. attorney, can only do so for 120 days, leaving a May 20 deadline to confirm his nomination.

His prospects took a major hit Tuesday when Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not back the controversial nominee.

“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for any district except the district where Jan. 6 happened, the protest happened, I’d probably support him, but not in this district,” Tillis told reporters Tuesday.

“At this point, I’ve indicated to the White House I wouldn’t support his nomination,” Tillis said.

It’s a rare case of a Senate Republican presenting a roadblock to a Trump nominee — even as the president on Tuesday morning urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to set a date to consider Martin’s nomination.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) suggested it could be the end of the road for Martin.

“I think that would suggest that he’s probably not going to get out of committee,” he told reporters.

Martin’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

A former "Stop the Steal" speaker, Martin represented several Jan. 6 defendants in trials, while one of his first moves in his current post was to reassign or dismiss prosecutors on those cases. He also simultaneously represented one client while moving to dismiss charges against him as U.S. attorney, doing the same for all cases in the wake of broad pardons issued by Trump on his first day in office.

He wrote a public letter to Elon Musk threatening to use his prosecutorial platform to go after those who “even acted simply unethically,” later launching investigations into two Democratic lawmakers,........

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