A judicial misconduct committee has recommended that Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit be suspended from being assigned new cases for one year, finding her refusal to cooperate in its investigation of her competency constitutes misconduct.

“Judge Newman’s refusal to cooperate with the Committee is a serious matter. … If the judge who is the subject of a disability proceeding could bring the mechanism Congress established for addressing judicial disability to a grinding halt simply by flouting the rules and refusing to cooperate, the self-policing mechanism Congress created would be a nullity. And that would undermine public confidence in the judiciary itself,” the committee stated in a report and recommendation released Friday.

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