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‘Every judge who gets crosswise with her chief judge or her colleagues must now worry whether similar tactics could be used to remove them.’

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Pauline Newman was first appointed to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals by President Reagan in 1984. At 98 years old, she is currently the oldest active federal judge in the United States — that is, unless her opponents get their way.

During its Thursday conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to take up a case (Newman v. Moore) involving efforts by Newman’s judicial colleagues to effectively sideline the Constitution to kick her off the bench. Article III of America’s founding legal document grants federal judges lifetime appointments and states that they can only be removed by Congress via impeachment and conviction.

Newman’s decades of public service came under siege in early 2023 when her court — led by Chief Judge Kimberly Moore — launched an investigation into the Reagan appointee’s mental fitness over alleged concerns of cognitive and physical decline. According........

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