Conservative Institute By Adam Peters
Reuters reported last week that the Senate confirmed Eric Tung after President Donald Trump nominated him to serve on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The president will soon be making another nomination, as another federal judge recently revealed that he is stepping down over Trump’s “assault on the rule of law.”
Judge lays out reasoning in op-ed piece
According to the Daily Caller, U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf officially announced this past Friday that he is retiring from the bench.
Wolf explained the rationale behind his departure in an op-ed piece published by The Atlantic, writing, “My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom.”
“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,” Wolf alleged.
“This 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 former judge maintained.
Wolf, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, went on to add that “[t]he White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out.”
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