MIKE DAVIS: Reagan-appointed judge driven from bench by TDS is a wolf in wolf's clothing

In his iconic dissent successful Morrison v. Olson (1988), the late, large Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brilliantly articulated wherefore the Independent Counsel Statute unconstitutionally intruded upon the Executive Branch. This dissent laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s existent constitutionalist bulk to reconstruct sanity to separation-of-powers jurisprudence by returning powerfulness to its rightful place: the Executive Branch, each of whose powerfulness is vested successful the President of the United States who is elected by each Americans.

Leftists and different anti-democratic big-government types telephone this presumption the "unitary enforcement theory." In reality, it is conscionable Article II of the United States Constitution. We The People indebtedness enforcement powerfulness to our duly-elected President; we bash not divvy it up among unelected, leftist national bureaucrats. Scalia’s astir celebrated enactment successful the Morrison dissent was his characterization of the statute arsenic "a wolf successful wolf’s clothing," a play connected the idiom of "a wolf successful sheep’s clothing." Scalia was illustrating however the usurpation of the separation of powers was unambiguous.

Mark Wolf was a erstwhile national justice connected the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Former U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf of Massachusetts is different wolf successful wolf’s clothing, contempt his effort--aided by the leftist media--to bundle himself otherwise. Wolf was appointed to the seat by President Reagan successful 1985, but helium is nary judicial conservative. Wolf received the stamp of support from the astir leftist home-state duo successful Senate history: Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. The crushed the support of these extremist senators was indispensable lies successful a century-old Senate contented called the bluish slip. Home-state senators tin veto nominations of U.S. territory judges, U.S. attorneys, and U.S. marshals. Nominees volition not determination guardant without the instrumentality of bluish slips from some home-state senators. Senators volition not relinquish this bonzer powerfulness due to the fact that they are power-hungry and self-serving. They privation to hand-select the national authoritative who could indict them, the national justice who could effort them, and the national marshal who could escort them to prison.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Liaison)

Recently, Wolf resigned from his beingness appointment. He had assumed elder presumption (a signifier of semi-retirement) during the Obama administration, allowing Obama—instead of the adjacent Republican president--to name a leftist to regenerate Wolf successful full-time judicial service. According to Wolf, President Trump has disregarded the regularisation of instrumentality successful innumerable ways. Wolf wants to talk retired astir it and service arsenic a self-appointed spokesperson for sitting judges who cannot. Wolf besides has blasted the Supreme Court, claiming that the constitutionalist bulk has enabled President Trump. Wolf has whined the Court has ruled 17 retired of 20 times successful the Trump administration’s favour connected its exigency docket. Wolf has compared this occurrence complaint to that of players similar Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa during Major League Baseball’s steroid era.

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Wolf’s assertion is absurd. The medication has succeeded truthful overmuch astatine the Supreme Court acknowledgment to its stellar squad of ineligible all-stars, headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Solicitor General John Sauer. Many different superb attorneys besides merit recognition for the administration’s sterling Supreme Court performance.

Moreover, the rulings by Wolf’s chap activistic judges are intelligibly partisan and lawless. How galore cases does Wolf deliberation the medication should person won earlier the Court? Eight retired of 20? Ten? Twelve? His statistical conspiracy gibberish is devoid of adjacent a scintilla of ineligible analysis. Wolf is lone funny successful peddling nonsense to bash justices helium plainly detests. Wolf besides conveniently ignores the different broadside of the statistical coin. According to investigation from erstwhile apical Senate counsel Michael Fragoso, territory judges successful Massachusetts ruled against the Trump medication connected 27 retired of 29 impermanent restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. Wolf seemingly has nary contented with this disparity; rather, helium seems to presumption these rulings arsenic coming from beacons of judicial integrity.

Wolf has a past of conspiracy hogwash. For implicit a decade, helium pursued a baseless lawsuit against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, history’s top justice. According to Wolf, Thomas had wilfully failed to marque required disclosures. The Judicial Conference categorically rejected Wolf’s theory. Yet, implicit a decennary aft the lawsuit had been closed, Wolf testified earlier a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee chaired by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, different partisan and deranged conspiracy theorist. During 1 exchange, Wolf told a U.S. legislator that erstwhile Reagan Solicitor General Rex Lee would person been disturbed by, arsenic Wolf saw it, unethical behaviour of Thomas. That legislator was Mike Lee of Utah, and Solicitor General Lee was his deceased father. Sen. Lee rightfully erupted astatine Wolf’s despicable statement.

Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, during a Senate Judiciary Committee proceeding successful Washington, DC, US, connected Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sitting judges cannot talk retired against President Trump according to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. They cannot usage Wolf arsenic their mouthpiece, either. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees request to subpoena Wolf to find which judges are trashing President Trump done Wolf. If Wolf refuses to divulge the information, helium should look contempt of Congress charges conscionable similar Trump allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro did.

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If the identities of judges who talk done Wolf to bash President Trump go public, each 1 of those judges indispensable look impeachment proceedings. No substance however hard condemnation by a two-thirds Senate supermajority volition be, these rogue judges indispensable endure done the impeachment process to deter them and different judicial embarrassments from engaging successful blatantly unethical behavior. These extremist judges are illegally and dangerously subverting the volition of American voters.

Wolf is simply a Sheldon Whitehouse, not a Ronald Reagan. Wolf plans to service arsenic the conveyance by which sitting judges tin effort to circumvent ethical constraints. He has spouted risible conspiracy tripe to denigrate the Supreme Court successful wide and Thomas successful particular. He adjacent has stooped to the all-time debased of bringing up a senator’s deceased begetter successful a pathetic effort to people a fewer inexpensive governmental points. In short, Wolf is simply a disgrace to the national judiciary, and his resignation is invited news. Good riddance to this wolf successful wolf’s clothing.