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In the battle to salvage whatever it is that remains of the rule of law in America, it just may go down as one of those shots heard around the world.

And the news wasn't extraordinary because of what he was

doing and retiring. It is how he did it. After 40 years on the bench, a federal judge appointed by

Ronald Reagan, with decades of experience overseeing criminal cases of mobsters and lawmakers alike,

is retiring from the bench so that he can sound the alarm and take a stand

against Donald Trump's assault on the rule of law in America.

Former federal judge Mark L. Wolf writes this in the Atlantic over the weekend, quote,

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 donors

from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have

stood for my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice

and on the bench. The White House's assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me

that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence for me is now intolerable. Judge Wolfe's point of no

return moment comes when Donald Trump's efforts and campaign to destroy the rule of law is coming at us fast and furiously with disturbing new developments every single day.

Today there's brand new reporting on the Trump administration testing, a favorite conspiracy theory of Donald Trump's in a court of law.

New York Times reporting this,

quote, far right influencers have been hinting in recent weeks that they have finally found a venue in Miami and a federal prosecutor in Jason A. Redding Cignones to pursue long promised charges

of a quote unquote grand conspiracy against Donald Trump's

adversaries. Their theory of the case, still unsupported by the evidence, that a cabal of

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