Ruth Bader Ginsburg Back In Hospital For Procedure

  • Date: 30-Jul-2020
  • Source: Forbes
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Back In Hospital For Procedure

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized for a procedure on Wednesday just weeks after announcing that she is undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of liver cancer “” raising concerns because a vacancy could allow President Donald Trump to nominate his third conservative justice to the court.

















Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivers remarks at the Georgetown Law Center in September ... [+] 2019.





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Ginsburg underwent a nonsurgical and "minimally invasive“ procedure at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on a bile duct stent that was placed last August and is expected to be released from the hospital by the end of the week, spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement Wednesday night. 







This is the third time in three months that Ginsburg has been hospitalized: earlier this month she was hospitalized to treat an infection and in May she was treated for a benign gallbladder condition but called from the hospital to participate in oral arguments, which the Supreme Court held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. 









Ginsburg announced earlier this