Justice Ginsburg has undergone radiation treatment for a new malignant tumor discovered on her pancreas in late July. Supreme Court says no further treatment at this time.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday. The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg’s pancreas.
The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg’s bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court. Doctors at Sloan Kettering said further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes just months after Ginsburg was operated on for lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old justice has been treated for cancer in various forms over the past 20 years.
The Supreme Court is set to open a new term on the first Monday in October, and the justices routinely return to work in September. Ginsburg has 11 public events planned for September and has not canceled any of them to date.
Were Ginsburg to leave the court prior to the 2020 election or even the inauguration, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has made clear the GOP would move immediately to fill the vacancy. That would ensure a 6-to-3 conservative majority on the court, all but guaranteeing a conservative grip on the court for decades to come.
(Via: CFP )
Blog Author's Comments: The question has been asked by many, why doesn't Ginsburg retire? At her age and with ill health, she cannot feel well and obviously cannot properly do her job, which is no doubt accomplished by her clerks, she simple signs the documents in favor of the Left.
She will or attempt to stay on the High Court, until after the 2020 election. This is yet another huge reason why President Trump must win a second term, to continue the work he has begun, and move the Supreme Court to the Conservative side for a very long time.
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