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Conservative activist and failed US attorney nominee Ed Martin will take over as the Justice Department’s pardon attorney as a spree of clemency grants by Donald Trump sets off a scramble by people trying to find an access point to the president.

The Justice Department’s new pardon attorney says he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the White House

Martin also suggested that officials whom he's unable to charge should be publicly shamed, despite DOJ policy.

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin said Tuesday the Department of Justice is reviewing several of former President Joe Biden’s final-hour pardons, vowing that his new office will scrutinize whether clemency was used “correctly” or politically.