Democrat judges spent the last two years blocking Trump's agenda from blue-city courtrooms like they were untouchable.
Philadelphia judge Mark Cohen didn't even try to hide it.
He just found out what happens when a Democrat judge finally faces accountability.
The Philadelphia Judge Who Turned His Courtroom Into a Democrat Political Platform
Philadelphia judge Mark Cohen never hid what he was.
He spent 42 years as a Democrat state representative in Pennsylvania before taking the bench in 2018.
In 2021, his own supervisor reported him for posting photos of himself in judicial robes on his public Facebook page.
The post sat alongside his Democrat cheerleading for thousands of followers to see.
Cohen agreed to take the photo down.
The discipline board later found it was still up.
He promoted Biden's Build Back Better legislation and said its passage would improve "many, many American lives."
Cohen marked Biden's birthday with a post calling him "an excellent President" who would deliver "many more achievements."
Higher minimum wages, abortion on demand, his NRA "F" rating from his years in the legislature – he put all of it on Facebook.
Pennsylvania's judicial code requires judges to maintain impartiality and abstain from political organizing or partisan endorsements.
They warned him repeatedly and he kept posting.
Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline reviewed 66 of his posts.
The court found Cohen was operating as a full-time Democrat Party advocate rather than a neutral judge.
"A review of Judge Cohen's postings shows he is partial to the political left on a variety of matters," the court wrote, adding that he "actively and openly supports leftward political figures and legislation that have nothing to do with the advancement of the law."
Democrat judges in federal courts at least have the decency to pretend they're ruling on the law.
Cohen didn't bother.
The Judicial Misconduct Case Pennsylvania Called Unprecedented
After Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline formally ruled against him in May 2024, Cohen didn't stop posting.
"No other case in the history of the Court of Judicial Discipline has involved such defiance post decision," the court wrote.
He even posted about his own suspension on Facebook – the same platform that ended his career.
Pennsylvania suspended Cohen without pay for the remainder of his judicial term and forced him to forfeit his judicial pension.
The suspension also triggered forfeiture of his prior public-service pension – the one he built over four decades as a state legislator.
Cohen claimed First Amendment protections all the way to the top.
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court disagreed, ruling that Cohen had been functioning as a Democrat Party advocate from the bench.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned him down Monday without a word of explanation.
When SCOTUS declined, it was final – both pensions forfeited, career finished.
Democrat Judges Ran a First Amendment Argument All the Way to SCOTUS and Lost
The Left spent two years celebrating every activist judge who blocked Trump's executive orders, deportation flights, and immigration enforcement actions.
They cheered when Obama-appointed judges appeared on anti-Trump podcasts to attack the administration for noticing their colleagues' political bias.
Accountability was coming, and it didn't stop at federal courthouses.
Seven Minnesota federal judges just learned that.
Attorney General Todd Blanche filed a judicial misconduct complaint against all seven after they sat down with the New York Times to attack Trump's immigration enforcement – with active cases still on their dockets.
Democrat judges – federal and state – assumed the robe made them untouchable political activists.
Cohen assumed the same immunity applied to a state bench in Philadelphia.
He was wrong.
Cohen didn't hide his politics behind legal language – he broadcast them to thousands of followers on Facebook, defied formal discipline, kept posting after his own suspension, and then demanded the Supreme Court protect his right to do it.
SCOTUS said no.
He had 42 years in Democrat politics and still couldn't maintain basic judicial impartiality for six years on the bench.
He lost two lifetimes of pensions for it.
Mark Cohen just proved that the robe doesn't make you untouchable.
Sources:
- Robert Schmad, "SCOTUS slams door on Dem judge's career fight after years of pro-Biden Facebook posts," Fox News, October 7, 2026.
- Mark B. Cohen v. Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania, U.S. Supreme Court Docket No. 25-1215, October 2026.
- Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline, "In re Judge Mark B. Cohen," Opinion, October 2024.
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court, "In re Judge Mark B. Cohen," Judgment, January 21, 2026.
- Staff, "DOJ moves to boot federal judges from immigration cases over NYT interview," Fox News, 2026.
