Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch
Political correspondent/columnist
Ed Martin, seen in a 2017 radio station’s publicity photo.
Like death and taxes, former St. Louisan Ed Martin making the news qualifies as “a sure thing.â€
Last week, Emily Gabriella Sommer, 32, of Washington, D.C., on a criminal complaint that claims that on May 8 Sommer spit on Martin while he was being interviewed on camera outside of the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Sommer is charged with one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official.
Police identified the woman through an X account, on which a person with the username @EmilyGabriellaS, made several posts related to the incident.
Martin, a former Missouri Republican Party chair, is an associate deputy district attorney who is in charge of reviewing pardons and also leads a group looking into allegations that the Biden administration unfairly targeted conservatives.
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Before being named to that post two weeks ago, Martin had been interim federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia. President Donald Trump withdrew his support for that appointment after some GOP U.S. senators expressed opposition to Martin being named to that post on a permanent basis.
Storms rocked the St. Louis area with a tornado damaging neighborhoods from Clayton to north St. Louis. View photos from the Post-Dispatch photographers during the week here. Video by Jenna Jones.
