It now appears that the confirmation of Ed Martin, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, will fail before it even gets to the Senate floor, even though Martin currently serves as acting U.S. Attorney for the district.

announced Tuesday that Martin’s confirmation will likely die in the Senate Judiciary Committee, because committee member Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. said he was withdrawing support for the appointee.

“Most of my concerns relate to Jan. 6,” Tillis told reporters. “I think that anybody that breached the perimeter should have been imprisoned for some period of time, whether it’s 30 days or three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on Jan. 6 and that’s probably where most of the friction was.”

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