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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 \u2014 that is, unless her opponents get their way. <\/p>\n

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During its Thursday conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to take up a case (Newman v. Moore<\/em>) involving efforts by Newman\u2019s judicial colleagues to effectively sideline the Constitution to kick her off the bench. Article III of America\u2019s founding legal document grants federal judges lifetime appointments and states that they can only be removed by Congress via impeachment and conviction. <\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s decades of public service came under siege in early 2023 when her court \u2014 led by Chief Judge Kimberly Moore \u2014 launched an investigation into the Reagan appointee\u2019s mental fitness over alleged concerns of cognitive and physical decline. According to Newman\u2019s counsel, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), Moore and the Federal Circuit\u2019s Judicial Council \u201cindefinitely removed Judge Newman from hearing new cases even before beginning a formal investigation into her fitness for office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman challenged her suspension on the grounds that the Judicial Council\u2019s actions are unconstitutional and represent a violation of the 1980 Judicial Council Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act (\u201cthe Disability Act\u201c), which governs the process for filing misconduct and disability complaints against federal judges. As described by NCLA, she argued that the Disability Act \u201cpermits administrative suspensions, but only a time-limited suspension with a definite end-date,\u201d and that \u201cit explicitly forbids removing a judge from office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s legal bid for reinstatement was shot down in 2024 by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee known for his recent ruling against President Trump\u2019s planned Kennedy Center renovations. Citing a past D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the D.C.-based judge held that Newman\u2019s claims could only be heard by the U.S. Judicial Conference and not federal courts.<\/p>\n

Cooper\u2019s ruling was later upheld by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in August 2025. The three-judge panel, comprised of one Biden and two Obama appointees, similarly claimed, \u201cIn the [Disability] Act\u2019s legislative history, we discerned \u2018clear and convincing\u2019 evidence of Congress\u2019s intent to channel review of as-applied challenges to the Judicial Conference alone and away from federal courts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With nowhere left to turn, Newman the Supreme Court in March to take up her case and decide whether the Disability Act bars claims like hers from undergoing judicial review. The Reagan appointee noted how her colleagues\u2019 actions \u201cundermine[] the judicial independence that is a vital foundation of our constitutional design\u201d and argued that \u201cevery judge who gets crosswise with her chief judge or her colleagues must now worry whether similar tactics could be used to remove them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newman\u2019s counsel used the petition to take aim at the Federal Circuit Judicial Council\u2019s allegations of cognitive and physical decline by noting that their client \u201chas continued to speak and write before the legal community.\u201d They further noted that \u201cno finding of disability has been made concerning her in the years since the unlawful administrative orders began\u201d and that she \u201cvoluntarily underwent and passed three expert evaluations of her mental fitness and was reported as having the mental ability of someone decades younger.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201c[Newman] now has been suspended longer than any federal judge in history. The length of the suspension, the apparent intention to keep her off the bench permanently, the same judges acting as complainant, witnesses and judges, and the refusal to transfer the matter to another circuit for neutral investigation are unprecedented,\u201d the petition reads. <\/p>\n

Under Supreme Court rules, at least four justices must agree to take up Newman v. Moore<\/em> before it can be considered by the full court. <\/p>\n

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