MIKE DAVIS: Federal court sets dangerous precendent against 99-year-old judge

The U.S. Supreme Court recently wrongly declined to hear U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. What has happened to her is outrageous, unconstitutional, dangerous, and unacceptable. For several years, Newman has endured an unconstitutional suspension imposed by her colleagues on the basis of her supposed lack of mental competency—which anyone who has spent any time around Judge Newman knows is absurd. She may be 99, but she is still sh