Federal Judge Warns of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy

“A federal judge warned of an ‘existential threat to democracy’ in a searing first-person essay published on Sunday, saying he had stepped down from the bench to speak out against President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

He accused Trump of “using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment.”

The judge, Mark Wolf, wrote for The Atlantic that Trump’s actions were “contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench.”