Sanctimonious Anti-Trump Judge Resigned To Avoid ‘Misconduct Inquiry,’ NPR Says
Judge Mark Wolf called Trump ‘uniquely dangerous’ and a threat to the country. But he may have resigned to avoid an inquiry into his own misconduct.
A federal judge who quit the bench ostensibly so he could warn others about President Trump’s supposed threats to the rule of law may have done so to avoid a misconduct inquiry, National Public Radio (NPR) reported recently.
In November, Massachusetts District Court Judge Mark Wolf wrote an essay in The Atlantic where he explained his decision to formally resign so he would no longer be “restrained” by judicial canons that forbid political statements by jurists. President Ronald Reagan first appointed Wolf in 1985.
“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,” Judge Wolf said in explaining his decision. MS NOW gleefully platformed the jurist so he could warn others. He also told PBS that Trump was “uniquely dangerous.”
Trump’s targeting of people “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 judge said. He assumed senior status 12 years prior.
“The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out,” Wolf huffed and puffed. “Silence, for me, is now intolerable.”
And yet, his resignation allowed him to stay “silent” about a pending inquiry into his misconduct, NPR now reports.
“Wolf’s decision to retire coincided with an inquiry by another federal judge into potential misconduct, according to newly published orders,” NPR reported on Feb. 4. “That inquiry found probable cause to believe an unnamed jurist had engaged in misconduct by creating a hostile workplace for court employees.”
A source told NPR that the judge is Wolf himself. The resignation ended the investigation, the news outlet reported.
U.S. Appeals Court Judge David Barron conducted the inquiry. It looked into allegations that Wolf had created a “hostile workplace.”
NPR reported:
The order did not provide details about the alleged misconduct but stated it could include “treating litigants, attorneys, judicial employees or others in a demonstrably egregious and hostile manner” or creating a hostile workplace for court employees. Judge Barron ultimately concluded that further action was unnecessary because of “intervening events.”
The accused judge offered few comments to NPR.
“I don’t know what to say but at the moment nothing. I’m sitting here getting ready to leave for two weeks and working frantically,” he said. “All right, my phone number’s public; you called it.”
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Why don’t you call him professor?
His phone number is public!!!!
Apparently he grew in office so much that he contracted TDS and became a grouchy old man. There’s nothing worse than an intemperate judge, in or out of the courtroom.
So what if he quit? Impeach him anyway!
It’s Democrat rules!
More of this.
Fatty commie Wolf substitutes the word “adversaries” for attackers.
This Reagan-appointed fossil sat on the federal bench for so long, he became a corrupt, Dhimmi-crat activist/narcissist.
This miserable, self-aggrandizing twit is more sheep than “Wolf.”
And this was different from Biden, 0bama, Clinton, LBJ, and JFK how?
There is nothing to say that inquiry shouldn’t continue
The resignation doesn’t alter the facts about prior workplace conduct. Either he created a hostile environment in which case the victims should be getting damages and this guy’s pension should take a hit OR there wasn’t a hostile workplace environment in which case the people bringing unsubstantiated claims should be held accountable for bringing false claims.
Just a reminder that United States District Judges must be endorsed by the senators from their state (the so-called “blue slip” process). So even President Reagan was constrained in who he could appoint to the District Court for the District of Massachusetts
The senators from Massachusetts during Reagan’s presidency were Ted (“I’ll drive off that bridge when I come to it”) Kennedy in the one seat and Paul Tsongas/John Kerry in the other. All three failed liberal presidential candidates.
The “blue slip” is a courtesy and not a mandate. No President has to have the approval of the Senator(s) from a State in making Federal District Court appointments. If it were a Democrat President and Democrat majority Senate you could bet your bottom dollar that they would put the most Leftist Judges in Conservative States.
A courtesy that you can’t revoke is a mandate.
You got to stand for something or you run like a coward.
But they need to stand for something BEFORE they make their faulty decisions…
He demonstrated his bias when he completely ignored the Biden autopen regime, where all the accusations (read it: projection) truly lie.
This put the nail in the “impartial” judge thing, doesn’t it?
its just nice to see a
lamb taking down a wolf
This MA judge is not typical of the state. He is not a minority, a woman, a cross dresser, bent or fighting a criminal charge. As far as I know he never stole anybody’s Rolex at Logan’s screening line, looked around guiltily, fled, and then retired on a full pension. He never buried a case against the governor’s son for sexually assaulting a woman during a flight in front of multiple witnesses.
“He is not a minority, a woman, a cross dresser, bent or fighting a criminal charge.”
Give him a break — he’s an antediluvian relic from the age of sanity.
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