EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Reagan-appointed federal judge Mark Wolf resigned to publicly criticize Donald Trump, citing an alarming White House assault on the rule of law.
Wolf, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, had planned to remain a judge for life.
In a first-person essay published in The Atlantic in November 2025, the 78-year-old jurist wrote that those plans had become untenable.
“My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” he said.