‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam
‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam
The judge said Chief Judge Markey gave her permission to disregard a court rule. That judge "has been dead for 17 years and has not been a member of the Court for 32 years," noted the council.
Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive, angry, combative, and intimidating”; “bizarre and unnecessarily hostile”; making “personal accusations”; “agitated, belligerent, and demonstratively angry”; and “ranting, rambling, and paranoid.” Indeed, interactions with Judge Newman have become so dysfunctional that the Clerk of the Court has advised staff to avoid interacting with her in person or, when they must, to bring a co-worker with them.
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Quick solution for situations like this: compulsive retirement.
65 years old? Get out of here or get thrown out.
Disagree-ish.
I would suggest that, instead, after a certain age or catastrophic loss (such as that of a lifetime partner) we should all be receiving regular competency / cognizants evaluations. I think that compulsive retirement would be dehumanizing, a potential trigger for senility, dementia, or suicide, and a negligent misappropriation of the experience and institutional knowledge, that many of our seniors hold.
Most modern countries contemplate the notion that at some point in your life you are deemed unfit of occupying an active position, regardless whatever experience an individual may have in whatever field.
What that does not imply is the individual being rendered useless. Highly experienced individuals can act as teachers, mentors and advisers, sharing experience but with no weight for actual decision making or action taking.
I myself don't intend to reach retirement age and turn off all switches and just stay home and vegetate; I think I can make myself useful up until my body becomes too frail and my mind breaks. But there is a point where I don't want to have any responsabilities towards an institution.
65 isn’t the same as 96
1 is not the same as 2
Care to elaborate on that, please? I'm not following your reasoning.
That’s Because you’re being an ageist.
You're going to have to elaborate on your reasoning. One sentence makes no service to explain yourself.
if you applied this unilaterally you'll end up with a lot of homeless old people
Surely we can find a sensible middle ground between allowing senile elderly folks to hold positions of power and kicking every 65 year old out of every job lmao.
I mean yeah you'd think so but also I was just responding to the top comment
I'm pretty sure they were referring to judges specifically.
What about homeless former judges?
Have you considered them?
Why?
In my very backwards and barbaric country every person, regardless of their profession, receives a state paid pension and we have a notion of social safety net. There are homeless here, like everywhere else in the world, but elderly citizens can retire knowing they will be taken care of.
On the particular case of judges, and on this I have the luck to have been explained how things work, upon reaching 65, a judge is retired and recognized by their service, with a very generous pension, as the career is considered as being of high strain.
No one should be forced nor allowed to work until their dying breath and this is a prime example for it.
well taking my personal position: I grew up poor in the UK and graduated into the 2008 recession and worked low end jobs in my 20s, self employed, no HR, benefits, low pay, manipulating the tax system to pay as little tax on my sub-10k salary as possible, which included not paying National Insurance, then in my 30s I managed to turn my life around, but also I emigrated to the US, but during that time I was too poor to pay voluntary NI contributions back home (I was forbidden to work for 6 months during the green card application for eg and then when I did get work I didn't fill in the tax system in the US well enough, and got fucked on my first tax year in this country). All of which my "fault" even though there was not really a choice to make. This means even though in general people in the UK get a pension — I, a natural born UK citizen, never will and never can.
Then, here in the US, I'm doing better but I'm not a citizen and thus not eligible for any kind of social security either. I have a 401k, but due to not starting it until my late 30s, it's unlikely to keep me afloat if I wanted to retire at 65. maaaaybe at 75. Probably 85.
But also, social security is a mess and a failing system that Republicans will cut again, and statistically are likely to cut every time they get into power, every 4-16 years, so that's between 3 and 7 cuts to it before I reach retirement age, and I'd have to become a citizen in the mean time and I haven't looked into the qualifying factors. it could be that ~20-30 years of contributions, if I was to start now, wouldn't be enough.
and I don't even have it that bad compared to some.
The US are a shithole that stays afloat because the population is kept tame via populist discourse and seeded in-fighting.
And after reading your comment, I find myself wondering how so many people, from my country included, go to the UK to work. Sounds a bit like US but a notch down.
We all make our choices but you could have chosen other countries, with better social networks.
I have been making contributions towards my national pension fund since I started working and enjoy a free access NHS. When I eventually reach the age of retirement, which now is around 67 years of age, I'll be granted a pension based on my contributive career.
I'll still be able to keep working if I choose to but most people don't and others are barred from it, like judges, surgeons, police officers and even politians, as they are seen unfit to hold crucial positions.
And this applies to all emigrants that move here, with some added conditions, obviously, but still are eligible for these social benefits.
And regardless all of this, you can and should save (products with special tax exemptions exist for that exact purpose) if you expect to maintain a specific standard of living.
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75 seems more reasonable