Calls for 95-Year-Old Federal Judge to Step Down Over Mental Fitness Concerns

A special federal appeals court has stated that Judge Pauline Newman, who has been on the Federal Circuit appellate court since the 1980s, may no longer be mentally fit for the job. Newman claimed in a lawsuit filed earlier this month that her fellow judges are trying to push her off the bench. However, the court said IT and human-resources staff, as well as people in the judge's own chambers, have claimed she has become "paranoid" and "agitated" and made nonsense claims about her phone being "bugged" and her email being "hacked."