Quote:Mark Wolf, a Massachusetts-based Reagan-appointed federal judge announced late Friday evening that he is resigning from the bench early so he can publicly trash President Trump.

“In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to serving for the rest of my life. However, I resigned Friday, relinquishing that lifetime appointment and giving up the opportunity for public service that I have loved,” Wolf wrote in an op-ed for The Atlantic.

Wolf said he’s resigning so he can publicly attack President Trump for ‘targeting his adversaries.’

“My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. 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,” Wolf wrote.

“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. The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out,” Wolf wrote.

“Silence, for me, is now intolerable,” he wrote.

“When I accepted the nomination to serve on the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, I took pride in becoming part of a federal judiciary that works to make our country’s ideal of equal justice under law a reality. A judiciary that helps protect our democracy. That has the authority and responsibility to hold elected officials to the limits of the power delegated to them by the people. That strives to ensure that the rights of minority groups, no matter how they are viewed by others, are not violated. That can serve as a check on corruption to prevent public officials from unlawfully enriching themselves. Becoming a federal judge was an ideal opportunity to extend a noble tradition that I had been educated by experience to treasure,” he said.

This isn’t the first time a federal judge has publicly attacked President Trump.

Last year, in an appalling violation of the code of ethics, US District Judge Reggie Walton went on CNN to speak publicly about pending legal matters.

Judge Walton, a Bush appointee, spoke with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about threats he has received after he called Trump a “charlatan” and rendered excessive punishment to J6 defendants.

“I’ve had more threats than what used to be the case,” the judge said referring to a January 6 case he oversaw.

Even Kaitlan Collins conceded that it is “rare that we get to hear from a sitting federal judge.”

“I’m wondering, what made you speak out tonight and speak publicly?” Kaitlan Collins asked Judge Walton.

“I think it’s important in order to preserve our democracy that we maintain the rule of law…I think it’s important that we judges speak out..” Walton said.

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Odd, where was that MFer judge when Trump was getting railroaded by Letitia James? He didn't speak out then, did he?

(11-09-2025 09:35 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Odd, where was that MFer judge when Trump was getting railroaded by Letitia James? He didn't speak out then, did he?

Right.

And with his TDS and his advanced age (78), I'm glad he's off the bench.

Mass.

Someone finally looked him up and found out he was a Reagan appointment, and that is simply not allowed any longer.

Iow’s, he and his professor (likely) wife are no longer getting the cocktail party invites they sooo enjoyed for 40 years.

Enjoy your life-long taxpayer funded pension til you die. Hope your Bridge game is improving with the additional free time off.

Buh, bye. You’re part of the problem.

(11-09-2025 10:12 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(11-09-2025 09:35 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Odd, where was that MFer judge when Trump was getting railroaded by Letitia James? He didn't speak out then, did he?

Right.

And with his TDS and his advanced age (78), I'm glad he's off the bench.

He sounds like a Never Trump Republican, just like former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan.

(11-09-2025 10:14 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Mass.

Someone finally looked him up and found out he was a Reagan appointment, and that is simply not allowed any longer.

Iow’s, he and his professor (likely) wife are no longer getting the cocktail party invites they sooo enjoyed for 40 years.

Enjoy your life-long taxpayer funded pension til you die. Hope your Bridge game is improving with the additional free time off.

Buh, bye. You’re part of the problem.

Yup

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FOS POS.

That's a good thing for that judge to be gone. One less politically activist judge to worry about.

Great. Then he can die in misery.

lulz, this aint going to be the real reason he's giving up his seat. Especially because he's going to allow Trump himself to appoint his successor.

(11-10-2025 08:49 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  lulz, this aint going to be the real reason he's giving up his seat. Especially because he's going to allow Trump himself to appoint his successor.

Dang! You beat me to it. LOL

He's old so he probably didn't think this through enough and now Trump can pick his successor.

Another old school GOP dinosaur bites the dust.



He's been on the bench since I was in the 8th grade and I'm old. Lol

We need federal judiciary term limits.

So he was appointed when I was only three years old. lol Geez.

(11-10-2025 11:30 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  We need federal judiciary term limits.

This. Even more than Congressional, imho