The Ugly Fight Over A Federal Judge's Retirement

The chief judge of one of the 13 federal appeals courts has filed a formal complaint against one of her colleagues. Her beef? That her nonagenarian fellow judge is cognitively impaired and unfit to serve.

How did we get here? That's the topic of the latest episode of our weekly news podcast, On The Merits. We discuss the near-unprecedented move to remove 95-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman from the bench.

Bloomberg Law reporters Kelcee Griffis and Kaustuv Basu explain who Newman is, what the complaint about her says, and what this whole affair says about the practice of granting federal judges lifetime appointments.

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