Mark Wolf, U.S. district judge for Massachusetts, just resigned from his job of 40 years. His reasoning was not to spend time with family or travel the world—but to get out from under President Donald Trump’s thumb.
“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,” he wrote in his letter.
Wolf is no liberal squish. For 10 years, he worked in the Justice Department, including four as the chief federal prosecutor for public corruption in Massachusetts. Then in 1985, he was appointed a federal judge by former President Ronald Reagan. And since Wolf achieved se

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