A 96-year-old U.S. federal appeals court judge was barred Wednesday from hearing cases for a year after a panel said she refused to undergo medical testing amid concerns that she is no longer mentally fit to serve on the bench.
It’s the latest development in an unusually public and bitter fight over whether Judge Pauline Newman should continue to serve on the Washington-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that has sparked a lawsuit and turned judges against one another.
Newman, a President Ronald Reagan appointee who has been on the court for nearly four decades, insists that she remains physically and mentally fit to decide matters of the law, and has accused her colleagues of making baseless claims in an effort to push her out because of her age.
America in general seems to have a massive problem with absolute geriatrics refusing to make way for the next generation. Their politicians, lawmakers, judges, all older than the hills.
We really do. The millennials need to step up. I’m finishing my degree and am considering a post bachelorette in political science or something similar to get into politics. It’s frustrating to see such an aged population making decisions they won’t have to live with.
Baccalaureate?
Damn autocorrect… yea. I’m going to leave it because I deserve that.
Mitt Romney just stepped down, citing that very reason. The U.K. has a freaking House of Lords and a Monarch that serves no purpose. Don’t throw stones.
Some of those people either can’t afford to retire or have actually returned to the workforce due to a combination of inflation, inadequate safety nets, and the fact that 401ks have not filled the gap created when companies stopped providing pensions.
Why aren’t we more suspicious of the personality type that wants to work til they die at their post?
“Life appointments” should really only extend to something like age 75, with yearly mental fitness tests after the social security age.
she was asked to undergo medical fitness test but refused
This is proof enough of senility.
(in context and in my opinion).The lady doth protest too much, methinks
I agree with it except for the mental fitness test.
Tests like that is only going to be used as political fodder.
Just set it at an age. You get to finish out the year’s session after you turn 70 but after that, you aren’t qualified. Go enjoy your life!
Just link it to the legal retirement age.
Sounds like she has a problem being judged by others I don’t believe it a coincidence.
I do not understand why someone in their dang 90s does not retire. Spend your days like my great-grandma did before she passed: time with your family and drinking whiskey on your porch.
Money combined with low stress tasks, probably.
You can imagine the kind of tasks and stress she has that she can allow herself to work until 96.
You think a person in retail, engineering or whatever low to middle income position would want to work until 96?
96… let that sink in. Way too old to making any legal decisions.
96?! Just go home already.
She belongs in a museum. Jfc GTFO you dinosaur.
I see what they’re doing. Stress her out enough to kill her. Classic.
