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.

Ed Martin Jr. has been appointed as the new pardon attorney in the Justice Department, stepping down from his nomination as the top federal prosecutor for Washington. Martin will scrutinize President Biden's pardons issued at the end of his administration,