Supreme Court won’t hear 98-year-old judge’s bid to end suspension

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the oldest active federal judge’s bid to end her suspension, which her colleagues issued after she refused their demands for mental fitness testing.  Pauline Newman, who turns 99 on Saturday and rejects the notion she is unfit to serve, sued her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after they indefinitely prevented her from taking on n...