Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts listens to opening statements during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on federal judicial ethics at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 17, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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The former federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said he began his career in public service at the Department of Justice in 1974, several years after the Watergate scandal.
Wolf served under former President Gerald Ford’s Attorney General Edward Levi, who he argued helped shape his views on what it means to uphold the rule of law and to seek justice in a nonpartisan way.
"I decided all of my cases based on the facts and the law, without regard to politics, popularity, or my personal preferences. That is how justice is supposed to be administered—equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now," he wrote.
Attorney General-designate Edward Levi, right, visits outgoing Attorney General William Saxbe at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty Images)
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Wolf’s successor was selected and nominated after he became a senior judge in 2013, and the seat was officially filled by Judge Indira Talwani in 2014.
"I hope to be a spokesperson for embattled judges who, consistent with the code of conduct, feel they cannot speak candidly to the American people," he told The New York Times.
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White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson told the Times that judges who look to "inject their own personal agenda into the law have no place on the bench."
"Any other radical judges that want to complain to the press should at least have the decency to resign before doing so," she said.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
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