Massachusetts Judge Resigns in Protest of Trump

The district court judge ended his 40-year appointment on the federal bench by publicly criticizing the Trump administration.
Massachusetts Judge Resigns in Protest of Trump
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston on April 24, 2024. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times
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Federal Judge Mark Wolf publicly announced his retirement Sunday in an article in The Atlantic, saying he was unable to remain on the bench after 40 years because he wanted to speak out about concerns over what he called President Donald Trump’s “threat to democracy.”

In Wolf’s public resignation letter, the long-serving judge wrote that he “no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom.”

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