Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, released form hospital following treatment for gallbladder infection
RUTH Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital on Wednesday after the Supreme Court justice received treatment for a gallbladder infection.
The 87-year-old jurist is “doing well and glad to be home,” the Supreme Court said in a statement.
Ginsburg had entered the hospital on Tuesday and underwent non-surgical treatment, according to officials.
She will return to the hospital for outpatient visits over the next few weeks and will eventually have the gallstone removed.
The procedure does not involve surgery.
She initially received medical care on Monday, but has taken part in the Supreme Court’s telephone arguments throughout the week.
The coronavirus outbreak has forced justices to resort to telephone sessions.
Her ailment did not stop her from ripping a Trump administration official on Wednesday regarding a rule that allows businesses to opt out of providing free birth control for women.
She slammed Solicitor General Noel Francisco from her hospital bed for allowing the government to “toss to the wind” an essential service.
“What the government has done in expanding this exemption is toss to the wind entirely Congress’ instruction that women need and shall have seamless, no-cost comprehensive coverage,” she said during the telephone hearing.
“They can get contraception coverage by paying out of their own pocket which is exactly what Congress did not want to happen.”
The New York City-born jurist has been treated for cancer four times, most recently in August when she underwent radiation for a tumor on her pancreas.
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She has twice been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and also had lung surgery in 2018 to remove cancerous growths.
RBG underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in 1999.
Ginsburg became a justice in 1993 after being appointed to the country’s highest court by President Bill Clinton.