96-Year-Old Judge Releases Medical Test as Suspension Vote Looms

Veteran Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman released a batch of information including a recent medical evaluation to buttress her position that an investigation into her mental health and fitness to serve on the bench is unjustified.

Miami-based adult forensic psychiatrist Regina Carney gave Newman high marks in the medical report released Thursday after conducting an evaluation last month.

“In summary, this is a fluent, engaging, strong-willed, highly accomplished and unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman with chronic medical issues that appear well-controlled at the current time, with no evidence of current substantial medical, psychiatric, or cognitive disability,” wrote Carney, who said ...