EXCLUSIVE — A District of Columbia Bar official who quietly withdrew from an ethics investigation into President Donald Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin last month is now facing a new disciplinary complaint of his own.

The Center to Advance Security in America, a conservative watchdog group, filed a complaint against D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel senior assistant attorney Jack Metzler, arguing that a series of public statements he made on X and Bluesky over the course of several years demonstrated a political bias that called into question his ability to participate fairly in disciplinary proceedings involving Martin, the former interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.