Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Resigns to Speak Freely Against Trump
Mark Wolf, a senior federal judge first appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, resigned this weekend in order to freely speak out against what he called the Trump administration’s “assault on the rule of law.”
“President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment,” Mark Wolf wrote in a Sunday letter published by The Atlantic. “This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench.”
Wolf was first appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1985 at the age of 38, where he presided over public corruption cases even after being promoted to a senior status in 2013.
Recalling Trump’s Truth Social post directing the Attorney General’s office to seek indictments against several of his political enemies, Wolf said he “watched in dismay and disgust from my position on the bench.”
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