The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments today from both Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), on behalf of Judge Pauline Newman, and Melissa Patterson, on behalf of the Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit, in Newman v. Moore, a case challenging the effective removal of Judge Newman from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The judges had tough questions for both sides but seemed particularly exasperated with Patterson’s argument that only the Judicial Conference of the United States can hear as applied constitutional challenges to the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act and that Newman’s case should therefore be dismissed.

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