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.”
Wolf, 78, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The process of nominations includes presidents having an opportunity to consult with the state’s senators—who were Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry at the time—about the potential district court nominees, according to Congress….
Massachusetts Judge Resigns in Protest of Trump
