Defiant 98-year-old judge takes fight to Supreme Court after mental fitness suspension

A 98-year-old federal judge plans to ask the Supreme Court to revive her tossed-out lawsuit against her colleagues for suspending her from the bench.

According to Law360, U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, the longest-serving active judge on the federal bench, will be moving forward with the appeal, as per her attorney, after the full D.C. Circuit refused to take up an en banc rehearing of her challenge to the suit's dismissal.

Newman, an appointee of former President Ronald Reagan...