‘Dismay And Disgust’: Federal Judge Rage Quits, Blasting ‘Existential Threat’ Trump Over ‘Angry Attacks On The Courts’
A Massachusetts-based federal judge publicized his abrupt departure from the bench after 40 years through an op-ed published Sunday by The Atlantic bemoaning President Donald Trump’s “angry attacks on the courts.”
Former U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf, 78, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, officially tendered his resignation from the lifetime appointment Friday. The former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts later wrote in The Atlantic he was “relinquishing” his longtime post, claiming the Trump administration’s “assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out.”
Trump, whose name Wolf mentions 30 times in his piece, “is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment,” the former Massachusetts judge alleged.
“As I watched in dismay and disgust from my position on the bench, I came to feel deeply uncomfortable operating under the necessary ethical rules that muzzle judges’ public statements and restrict their activities,” Wolf wrote. “Day after day, I observed in silence as President Trump, his aides, and his allies dismantled so much of what I dedicated my life to.”
In making his case against Trump, the judge referenced President Richard Nixon, in whose Department of Justice (DOJ) he briefly served. (Read more from “‘Dismay And Disgust’: Federal Judge Rage Quits, Blasting ‘Existential Threat’ Trump Over ‘Angry Attacks On The Courts’” HERE)
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