Mark Wolf, who resigned Friday as a senior Reagan-appointed judge, accused President Trump of "using the law for partisan purposes" in a scathing op-ed that The Atlantic published Sunday.

The big picture: The conservative Massachusetts federal judge, who served in the Department of Justice during the Ford administration, resigned on Friday — the same day that U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called on young lawyers to join the Trump administration's "war" against "rogue activist judges."

Driving the news: Wolf in the op-ed that's titled "Why I'm resigning" accused Trump of "targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment." • This was "contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years" i

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