Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Miss Arguments Following Lung Cancer Procedure |
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg missed oral arguments Monday as she recuperates from cancer surgery.
It’s not clear when the 85-year-old justice will return to work, though the Supreme Court’s public information office said she will continue to participate in official business from her home in Washington.
Monday is the first time that Ginsburg has missed arguments since she joined the high court in 1993.
Doctors at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York removed two cancerous nodules from Ginsburg’s lungs on Dec. 21. She was discharged on Dec. 26.
The growths were detected when Ginsburg was hospitalized for a rib fracture in November 2018. On that occasion, the justice fell in her chambers at the Supreme Court and was admitted to a Washington-area hospital after experiencing discomfort in her chest.
In a public appearance just days before December’s procedure, Ginsburg said that her health was “fine”.
The Supreme Court returned from its holiday break Monday and will hear cases through Jan. 16.
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