The oldest sitting federal judge in the country has hit back at a panel of her colleagues who blocked her form hearing further cases on the grounds of 'mental fitness'. Judge Pauline Newman, 96, was appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1985 by then-President Ronald Reagan. But now the experienced judge has been suspended by her colleagues on the Federal Circuit's Judicial Council for alleged frailty in her physical health and failing to cooperate with an investigation into 'reasonable concerns' surrounding her mental fitness.
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