US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (87), resumes her participation in legal arguments days after her admission in the hospital due to a gall bladder infection. She took part in two cases shortly only after a day at Baltimore’s John Hopkins hospital.
The Court’s spokeswoman Kathy Arberg reported that she was ‘comfortably resting and was glad to be home’ in her statement to the press.
Ms. Ginsburg is the senior most liberal justice of the court and her health is being monitored continuously. Although she had been admitted a few times in the past few years, she has always returned back to work on every single instance. In August 2019, she was treated for a cancerous tumour on her pancreas. She received treatment for colon cancer in 1999, and pancreatic cancer in 2009.
In December 2018, she had a surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her lung. She has also suffered fractured ribs from falls.
She was the second woman to have ever joined the Supreme Court of the United States, after having been nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Since Supreme Court Justices serve for life or until they choose to retire, Ms. Ginsburg was reported saying “As long as I can do the job full steam, I will be here”, after there were concerns from her supporters of her being replaced by a more conservative judge.