Posted on 12/12/2024 4:42:59 PM PST by Libloather
Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest federal judge in America at age 97, is continuing to fight against a suspension from the bench by her colleagues who found her mentally not fit enough to serve. Newman is appealing her suspension and has also filed a motion to unseal documents related to an investigation which ultimately led to her being temporarily removed from the bench.
Newman, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, was barred from serving in September 2023 for a year by the Federal Circuit's Judicial Council after the panel said she refused to cooperate with an investigation into "reasonable concerns" surrounding her mental fitness. The suspension was extended for another year by the panel in September.
The Committee on Judicial Conduct conducted more than 20 interviews with court staff pointing to her "significant mental deterioration including memory loss, confusion, lack of comprehension, paranoia, anger, hostility and severe agitation," per court documents.
The suspension order also said Newman was slower than her colleagues in issuing opinions and had "amassed a troubling backlog of cases," which her team has said is not accurate.
The Federal Circuit Court on which Newman has served for nearly 40 years deals frequently with patent, intellectual property and copyright cases. Newman is considered a leading intellectual property jurist.
The investigation into Newman led her to file a federal lawsuit against her fellow judges.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, a President Obama appointee, threw out most of Newman’s lawsuit in February, then dismissed the entire case on the pleadings in July, per Law & Crime.
In his 15-page ruling, Cooper rejected the legal challenges Newman had raised to the Judicial Conduct & Disability Act and did not focus on the factual allegations against Newman.
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Since she is only 6-years older than me, I say “Not guilty”...
Whatever happened to “Judge not, that ye be not judged?”
Whatever, amazing she’s still fighting to be in the game at 97, and it’s probably keeping her alive.
Chief judge Kimberly A. Moore of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a Dubya judge.
The Constitution says federal judges are appointed for life, so they can serve into their 100s.
She is far more competent than the current President. Perhaps she can replace Trump in 2028.
There are lots of things they didn’t think through or didn’t expect.
Look at Pelosi and Biden.....would you want THOSE GOOD LOOKERS JUDGING YOU?
I agree. It doesn’t seem right for the other judges to remove the one they don’t like.
They should make their argument to Congress.
They can conspire to not let her vote be determinative.
Can they refuse to assign her any cases? Hmm....
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