Pauline Newman remains to be preventing to have the ability to do her job. It’s fairly easy: Article III-appointed judges are to carry their workplace throughout good conduct. It looks like the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has taken it upon themselves to redefine “good conduct” to incorporate not making everybody else on the panel look silly by dissenting after which having your opinion taken up by the Supreme Court docket. Newman has made a behavior of this, even having one in every of her opinions affirmed by the Supreme Court during the Federal Circuit’s resolution to functionally impeach her. Regardless of the Supreme Court docket and several medical doctors supporting her psychological acuity, the Federal Circuit has determined to resume her suspension. Reuters has protection:
The U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Federal Circuit mentioned on Monday that it could prolong its suspension of 98-year-old choose Pauline Newman for one more yr after figuring out that she had not complied with an inner investigation into her health to serve on the Washington, D.C.-based courtroom.
The Court docket justified their resolution by saying that Choose Newman — regardless of already submitting to neurological exams by lead docs within the area — should take a “a full neuropsychological battery of exams” to find out if she is able to serving as a choose. This reasoning shouldn’t be unfamiliar to readers who noticed our Q&A with Newman from about two years ago. In it, she half-jokingly responded to the then accusation that she wasn’t match to evaluate as a result of she suffered a coronary heart assault:
[S]aying and publishing that I had a coronary heart assault once I by no means did, saying that I’ve a stent. It’s straightforward sufficient to search out if somebody has a stent. To which my reply was, I’ve no must undergo a head to toe MRI. And if I omit even my little toe, they’ll say, effectively, that’s the place the stent is.
She had this to say in response to the Court docket’s most up-to-date extension:
“To this point my accusers have prevented any litigation or goal judicial assessment that might expose the reality, and I’m involved lest these travesties of process and regulation purchase precedential drive, putting a cloud on any choose of divergent coverage or politics, or perhaps a choose who writes dissents,” Newman mentioned. “If the courts ratify this menace to judicial independence, it could have an effect on the general public’s religion within the federal judiciary as the inspiration of constitutional democracy.”
This must be one of many pettiest colleague disputes within the historical past of the judiciary.
US Appeals Court Extends Suspension Of 98-Year-Old Judge In Fitness Probe [Reuters]
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