96-Year-Old Judge’s Colleagues Push to Get Her Suit Tossed

The federal lawsuit brought by under-fire 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman in response to a probe into her fitness to serve should be thrown out, the judges investigating her told another Washington, D.C., federal court.

The internal actions of the three-judge special committee of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit aren’t subject to judicial review, the committee’s members said in a filing late Friday night at the federal District Court for the District of Columbia. Each court has authority under the constitution to enforce discipline short of removing a judge, they added.