Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoing Chemotherapy
(Washington, DC) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is undergoing chemotherapy to treat cancer. The 87-year-old justice says the treatment is having positive results. In a statement released by the court, Ginsburg says she is fully able to continue in her post. She started the chemotherapy on May 19th. She said her visit to a hospital this week had nothing to do with the cancer, but was to remove gall stones and treat an infection. Ginsburg said scans on July 7th show the lesions on her liver are reducing in size.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer. The treatment is yielding “positive results.” The liberal justice, 87, said she remains “fully able” to continue in her post. Owing to her age and long medical history, Ginsburg’s health is the subject of widespread interest given her status as a liberal icon. The prospect that President Donald Trump could name a third justice to the Supreme Court would be a major election issue. Earlier this week, Ginsburg was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after having a fever and chills, and undergoing an “endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August,” the court said at the time. Ginsburg said her cancer treatment is unrelated to this week’s incident. The court ended its term last week with a ruling upholding the ability of Congress and a New York prosecutor to attempt to obtain Trump’s financial records. But the court this week has also ruled on two death penalty appeals and a Florida voting access case. Ginsburg was also in the hospital in early May. At that time, she participated in oral arguments from her hospital bed, asking questions in a case concerning Obamacare’s so-called contraceptive mandate.
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