Ruth Bader Ginsburg "home and doing well" after hospitalization for chills and fever

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RBG released from hospital after being treated for an infection

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Sunday, two days after being hospitalized for experiencing chills and fever. The 86-year-old justice received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

"Justice Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital," Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement. "She is home and doing well."

Ginsburg, 86, was initially brought to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday. She was then transferred to Johns Hopkins for further evaluation and treatment for a possible infection.

The Supreme Court's public information office said Saturday that Ginsburg's symptoms had "abated" after she received "intravenous antibiotics and fluids."

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Recently, Ginsburg missed arguments on November 13 with what the court called a stomach bug. She returned on November 18 for the court's next public meeting.

Ginsburg has been treated for cancer twice in the past year. In August, she underwent a three-week course of radiation for a tumor on her pancreas. The tumor was treated "definitively," according to the public information office, and there was no sign the disease had spread.

Last December, she underwent surgery for lung cancer.

"Post-surgery evaluation indicates no evidence of remaining disease, and no further treatment is required," a spokesperson for the Supreme Court said a few weeks later.

andropogon09 on November 25th, 2019 at 02:13 UTC »

Not to worry because Mitch McConnell surely will not allow the Senate to consider any SCOTUS nominees so close to a Presidential election/ssss

__prison__mike__ on November 24th, 2019 at 23:36 UTC »

Stomach bug last week and hospitalization this week...probably some kind of complication stemming from her previous cancer treatment.

EDIT: I think I should clarify...there is a fairly high probability that she has some kind of malignancy in her body at the moment and the past two weeks of "illnesses" could very well be manifestations of that. She was very foolish to not have retired when Obama had a D-majority senate, especially given her previous brush with cancer and the relative rarity of the president having his party as a majority in the senate. And it is fairly well known that she falls asleep during arguments, forgets what she is talking about mid sentence, etc...there is a video of her speaking to a law professor where she simply stops speaking halfway through her sentence and has a tough time recovering. She doesn't seem fit to serve TBH. If someone can find the video (I cannot), do post it.

I'm not a fan of her politics, but she does seem to be a respectable, conscientious justice with an obvious legacy of civil rights (especially gender equality) victories. Her long friendship with, and deep respect for (and vice versa) with Scalia does speak well to her character too. No one deserves to suffer with cancer, and I do wish an improvement to her health, though that isn't likely to happen...

smoke_and_spark on November 24th, 2019 at 21:17 UTC »

Prolly should have retired in 2012.