BOSTON —

A Massachusetts district court judge who retired last week said he was compelled to resign to combat what he saw as President Donald Trump's threat to law and democracy in America.

Now-former U.S. District Court for Massachusetts Senior Judge Mark Wolf resigned Nov. 7 after a 40-plus-year career that included presiding over some of the state’s most high-profile and notorious cases.

In a column that appeared in The Atlantic this week, Wolf lashed out at what he described as the "White House’s assault on the rule of law."

"My reason (for resigning) 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 don

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