On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish has as a guest Mark Wolf, who reOn today's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish had as a guest Mark Wolf, who recently retired as a federal District Court judge in order to be free to criticize President Trump. Wolf claimed: "The judiciary is striving, particularly the lower court judges, to perform our fundamental role of holding elected officials to the limits of the power given to them in the Constitution." But can Wolf conceivably believe that the Constitution gives federal judges the power to order taxpayer-funded sex-change operations for convicted murderers? And yet, in Kosilek v. Spencer (2012): Wolf ruled that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for Michelle Kosilek, a transgender inmate convicted of murdering his wife in 1990. He found that denying the surgery violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Cornish never called him on it.
