Requested and Answered
Investigations of federal judges are uncommon and will occur extra, former clerk says
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After nearly 40 years on the bench, Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sued her chief, two decide colleagues and the Federal Circuit Judicial Council, following a court committee interview and a medical records request, which she denied, and a suggestion that she ought to be suspended from work for one 12 months.
Newman is in her 90s, the Washington Post stories, she’s the federal court docket’s oldest decide, and colleagues have mentioned she will be able to not do the job.
Investigating federal judges falls beneath the Judicial Conduct and Incapacity Act, and it doesn’t occur almost as usually because it ought to, says Aliza Shatzman, the president and founding father of the Authorized Accountability Challenge and a former clerk. The nonprofit focuses on serving to legislation clerks have optimistic experiences.
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Aliza Shatzman
Aliza Shatzman is the president and founding father of the Authorized Accountability Challenge. She usually writes about judicial accountability, and her work has been revealed within the Columbia Regulation Overview, the Harvard Journal on Laws and the UCLA Journal of Gender and Regulation.
