Questions about age are looming large over Washington, with doubts about whether an octogenarian president is fit for reelection and if the nation’s oldest sitting senator should finish out her term. Fight brews over judge’s forced retirement effort:
CORRECTION: Francis Shen, then an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, conducted research on the age of federal judges. Incorrect information appeared in an earlier version of this story.
Anonymous court employees have alleged that Newman is “simply losing it mentally” with some describing her as “paranoid,” according to court filings. “At all relevant times, Judge Newman has been and is in sound physical and mental health,” Newman’s attorney wrote in the complaint. “She has authored majority and dissenting opinions in the whole range of cases before her Court, has voted on petitions for rehearing en banc, and has joined in the en banc decisions of the Court.”The investigation comes as questions about age are being raised in the two other branches of the federal government.
In her lawsuit against the three-judge committee, Newman argued their investigation skirts those constitutional protections, also contesting their characterizations of her mental state and work output.
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