Mayor Eric Adams thanked President Biden Wednesday for fast tracking work authorization and deportation protection for some 470,000 Venezuelan migrants, showing signs that their relationship may be thawing after the two Democrats seemingly snubbed each other in New York City this week. 

"More than 116,000 asylum seekers have come to New York City since last spring in search of the American Dream. Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to ‘Let Them Work,’ so I want to thank @POTUS for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status," Adams wrote on X, formerly Twitter. 

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced Wednesday the extension and redesignation of Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, "due to extraordinary and temporary conditions in Venezuela that prevent individuals from safely returning." 

"Temporary protected status provides individuals already present in the United States with protection from removal when the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return," Mayorkas said in a statement. "That is the situation that Venezuelans who arrived here on or before July 31 of this year find themselves in. We are accordingly granting them the protection that the law provides. However, it is critical that Venezuelans understand that those who have arrived here after July 31, 2023, are not eligible for such protection, and instead will be removed when they are found to not have a legal basis to stay."

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Adams has commented in recent weeks that the migrant crisis was on tract to "destroy this city," as the massive influx of so-called asylum seekers had shifted from being primarily from Venezuela and Latin America to now more arriving across the border originally from African nations and even Russia. 

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The mayor's praise of Biden for clearing the way for 470,00 Venezuelans to work and stay in the country comes after Adams said last month that the Big Apple had "no more room" to house migrants. The mayor's administration has received pushback from upstate counties, outer boroughs of the city like Staten Island and Queens, the governor's office and even the Biden administration over his controversial "decompression strategy" to relocate migrants. 

Biden was in New York City earlier this week to speak before the United Nations General Assembly, and though he met with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and even praised her during the top of his remarks at a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday night, the president did not meet with Adams when he was in the city for the United Nations General Assembly.

"Everybody knows where I am," Adams told reporters Tuesday when pressed on whether he'd meet with Biden while the president was in town. 

Adams admitted that the two had not spoken since earlier this year, as their relationship has soured amid the mayor's harsher criticism toward the president on the migrant crisis. Adams was removed from Biden’s re-election team, yet Hochul remains a member of the presidential campaign’s team of surrogates. 

Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest sitting federal judge in America, was barred Wednesday from hearing cases after a panel of her colleagues determined she is not mentally fit enough to serve on the bench, a claim Newman's team has called "baseless."

The year-long suspension imposed on Newman by the Federal Circuit's Judicial Council comes after the panel said she won't cooperate with an investigation into "reasonable concerns" surrounding her mental fitness.

Newman, 96, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by former President Ronald Reagan in 1985. She says she is physically and mentally fit enough to continue doing her job, and has obtained independent evaluations from two doctors issuing the same opinion, court documents revealed.

The investigation into Newman led her to file a federal lawsuit against her fellow judges in May.

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In a response to the decision, Newman's lawyers said the issue escalated in March after Newman refused to resign despite "non-negotiable" demands from Chief Judge Kimberly Moore that she step down or take senior status. The document stated that Moore asked Newman to step down because she had "probable cause to believe" that Newman suffers from a cognitive disability.

In its decision, the Judicial Council said more than 20 interviews with court staff point to "significant mental deterioration including memory loss, confusion, lack of comprehension, paranoia, anger, hostility, and severe agitation." The order also said Newman was slower than her colleagues in issuing opinions and had "amassed a troubling backlog of cases," which her team has said is not accurate.

"Judge Newman has been having trouble recalling events, conversations, and information just days old and having trouble comprehending basic information that court staff communicate to her," the council wrote.

Newman's lawyers described the claims as "baseless" and an effort to force her out of her position because of her age. Federal judges, who are chosen by the president and confirmed by the Senate, are appointed for life and do not have to retire at any given age.

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Newman's suspension can be renewed or rescinded depending on her level of cooperation with the investigation, according to the order. 

The decision revealed that Newman's refusal to cooperate stems from a May 16 order from a Special Committee directing her to undergo two medical examinations and to provide one of the examiners "specified medical records of relevance to assessing disability." She was also asked to sit with the Committee for an interview.

"The burden is small, the basis for concern about disability very substantial, and the job at issue of great public importance. Yet Judge Newman refused," the panel wrote.

Newman's lawyers said she did not fulfill the requests because the Committee had selected the medical providers without disclosing "their qualifications or the methods of their selection."

Newman did obtain independent medical evaluations from a neurologist and a forensic psychiatrist, both of whom determined she is in an acceptable mental state to continue serving on the bench.

"In light of the considered opinions of now two independent expert practitioners, both of whom have found that Judge Newman is fully competent and entirely capable of continuing in office, the Committee, even if it ever had a legitimate basis to question Judge Newman’s competence, has no further basis for requiring additional testing or continuing to question Judge Newman’s abilities," her lawyers wrote.

Greg Dolin, one of Newman's attorneys, said they believe the sanction imposed on Newman is "flatly illegal" and they will be seeking review from another committee overseeing judicial conduct nationwide.

In their response, Newman's attorneys determined the Committee is not interested in "the truth of the matter," but set on meeting a "predetermined conclusion."

"Were the committee formed to investigate these baseless allegations actually interested in ascertaining the truth of the matter— that Judge Newman, despite her age, is in no way disabled — it could have done so months ago," they wrote.

"Instead, Chief Judge Moore and the committee she appointed have been interested in one thing and one thing only — keeping Judge Newman off the bench via the exercise of raw power unconstrained by statutory requirements, constitutional limits, any notions of due process, conflict of interest rules, or even basic fairness."