Federal Judge Mark Wolf resigns after criticizing Trump administration

In his iconic dissent in Morrison v. Olson (1988), the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brilliantly articulated why the Independent Counsel Statute unconstitutionally intrudes on the Executive Branch. This dissent laid the foundation for the Supreme Court’s current constitutionalist majority to restore sanity to separation of powers jurisprudence by returning power to its rightful place: the Executive Branch, with all powers vested in the President of the United States elected by all Americans.

Leftists and other anti-democratic big government types call this view “unitary executive theory.” In reality, this is just Article II of the United States Constitution. It is matter. We the People lend executive authority to our duly elected President; We don’t distribute it among unelected, left-wing federal bureaucrats. Scalia’s most famous line in his Morrison dissent was when he described the law as “a wolf in wolf’s clothing,” a play on the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Scalia showed how obvious the violation of the separation of powers was.

Former U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf of Massachusetts is another wolf in wolf’s clothing, despite his efforts to package himself otherwise with the help of left-wing media. Wolf was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1985, but he is not a judicial conservative. Wolf received the stamp of approval from the most left-wing local-state duo in Senate history: Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. The reason why the confirmation of these radical senators is necessary lies in a centuries-old Senate tradition called the blue shift. Home state senators can veto the nominations of U.S. district judges, U.S. attorneys, and U.S. marshals. Candidates will not be able to advance without receiving blue slips from both state senators. Senators will not give up this extraordinary power because they are power hungry and self-serving. They want to handpick the federal prosecutor who can indict them, the federal judge who will try them, and the federal police chief who will escort them to prison.

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Wolf recently resigned from his lifetime position. He had assumed senior status (a form of semi-retirement) during the Obama administration, allowing Obama — rather than the next Republican president — to appoint a leftist replacement for Wolf in the full-time judicial service. According to Wolf, President Trump has disregarded the rule of law in countless ways. Wolf wants to talk about the issue and serve as a self-appointed spokesman for justices who can’t. Wolf also criticized the Supreme Court, claiming that its constitutionalist majority enabled President Trump. Wolf complained that the Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in 17 of 20 decisions in the emergency brief. Wolf compared this success rate to that of players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa during Major League Baseball’s steroid era.

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Wolf’s claim is absurd. The administration has had great success at the Supreme Court, thanks to its all-star team headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Attorney General John Sauer. Many other brilliant attorneys also deserve praise for the administration’s Supreme Court performance.

Moreover, the decisions of Wolf’s fellow activists are clearly partisan and unlawful. How many cases does Wolf think the administration will have to win before the Court? Eight out of 20? Front? 12? There is not even a shred of legal analysis in the statistical conspiracy nonsense. Wolf’s sole purpose is to sell nonsense to crush judges he clearly hates. Wolf also conveniently ignores the other side of the statistical coin. District judges in Massachusetts ruled against the Trump administration in 27 of 29 temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, according to analysis by former Senate counsel Michael Fragoso. Wolf apparently has no problem with this inequality; Rather, he seems to think that these decisions come from signs of judicial integrity.

Wolf has a history of conspiracies. For more than a decade, he pursued a baseless lawsuit against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the greatest judge in history. According to Wolf, Thomas deliberately failed to make the required disclosures. The Judicial Conference categorically rejected Wolf’s theory. But more than a decade after the case closed, Wolf testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee chaired by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, another partisan and unhinged conspiracy theorist. During one meeting, Wolf told a U.S. senator that former Reagan Attorney General Rex Lee would be disturbed by Thomas’s unethical behavior, in Wolf’s view. This senator was Mike Lee of Utah, and Attorney General Lee was his deceased father. You. Lee was rightfully outraged by Wolf’s despicable statement.

Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sitting judges cannot speak against President Trump under the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. They can’t use Wolf as their mouth either. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees are required to subpoena Wolf to determine which judges, through Wolf, crushed President Trump. If Wolf refuses to release the information, he would face contempt of Congress charges, just as Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro did.

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If the identities of the justices who spoke through Wolf to attack President Trump are made public, each of those justices would face impeachment proceedings. No matter how difficult it is for a two-thirds supermajority of the Senate to convict, these rogue judges must suffer through the impeachment process and other judicial embarrassments to deter them from engaging in blatantly unethical behavior. These radical judges are illegally and dangerously subverting the will of American voters.

Wolf is a Sheldon Whitehouse, not a Ronald Reagan. Wolf plans to serve as a tool through which sitting judges can try to circumvent ethical constraints. He spouted risky conspiracy nonsense to denigrate the Supreme Court in general and Thomas in particular. It even hit an all-time low of bringing up a senator’s late father in a pathetic attempt to score a few cheap political points. In short, Wolf is a disgrace to the federal judiciary, and his resignation is welcome news. Get well soon to this wolf disguised as a wolf.