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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer
Posted 12:50 PM, August 23, 2019, by Tyler Slauson



Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.

“The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” the court said.

This is the 86-year-old liberal icon’s fourth bout with cancer. In 1999, she successfully underwent surgery to treat colon cancer. She was treated for early stages of pancreatic cancer in 2009. Last December, Ginsburg underwent surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her left lung.

She missed oral arguments for the first time earlier this year while recovering, but participated in rulings via court transcripts and in writing.

Ginsburg’s health has long been an issue. The oldest Supreme Court justice, Ginsburg leads the liberal wing on the court which is currently outnumbered 5-4 by conservatives.


Despite her recent health scare, Ginsburg has made a series of public appearances and continues to travel. She attended a legal conference in Lisbon this summer, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and retired Justice John Paul Stevens, who died soon after returning.

Asked late last month about any retirement plans, Ginsburg said: “I’ve always said I’ll stay on this job as long as I can do it full steam.”

At her age, she assesses that each year: “I was OK this last term. I expect to be OK next term. And after that we’ll just have to see.”

Ginsburg also underwent a heart procedure in 2014 to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery.
‘Notorious RBG’

An appointee by Democratic President Bill Clinton, Ginsburg was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 1993 and took her oath for the Supreme Court a week later. She was the second woman ever appointed to America’s highest court, after Sandra Day O’Connor, who served from 1981 to 2006.

Ginsburg, a former women’s rights lawyer who argued six groundbreaking cases before the justices early in her career, enhanced her reputation as a supporter of women’s rights on the bench. Over time, she also wrote opinions advancing broader civil rights and liberties.

She became the leader of the left wing when Stevens retired in 2010. Under court tradition, the most senior justice in the majority assigns the opinion for the court and the most senior justice among dissenters chooses who writes the main dissenting opinion.

In 2013, Ginsburg’s dissent for the liberals in Shelby County v. Holder, when the majority curtailed the reach of the Voting Rights Act, went viral on social media. It inspired the “Notorious RBG” meme, which has stuck as RBG has become the subject of books, films and assorted mementos.

In the courtroom setting this year, Ginsburg has seemed determined not to flag. In June, after returning from a New York trip with a serious case of laryngitis, she insisted on reading lengthy excerpts from an opinion for the majority in a Virginia racial gerrymander dispute.

Here is the full statement from the Supreme Court:

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor. As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time.”

https://q13fox.com/2019/08/23/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-treated-for-pancreatic-cancer/

RIP

oh my bad, i mean get well soon

Wow, 86 years-old?

What a constitution.

(get it? I made a funny)

She'll make it to the next dem Potus out of shear willpower.

She is tougher than a $3 steak.

She sure will. She has to, and she knows that.

Why?

Another Trump appointee would be great, like the first two.

I’m not a liberal. But the Supreme Court is already leaning conservative, and will be for awhile.

We need a liberal judge to help the balance. Certainly not another Trump Appointment, rush through by Moscow Mitch

We do not need another liberal judge. We need a conservative woman.

Liberal judgers think they are lawmakers.

And conservative judges make rulings like "Money is speech"

Protecting the Big Money that controls that has helped hijacked our country's politics and created a system where politicians work for those that donate to their campaigns rather than those they're supposed to represent

The court already has John G. Roberts!

Maybe, or maybe we are seeing Weekend at Bernies.

Just a joke man, I wish her the best. She has had a long distinguished career.

I get it.



The vote is 3-0.

Damn now I gotta rent "Bernies..".

Great summer flick.

We know why this was posted. So THe deplorables can go

Deplorable. Pfft the trump era.

I had no problem with the first one. He's decent and pretty fair. But the second one is an ass.

Trump was pretty classy last night in his comments concerning Notorious RBG. I gotta give him credit for that one.

100% Agree. If Trump were to fill a SCOTUS seat next year, there would be riots the likes we've never seen.

No, I doubt that it would. Obama was in the last year of his second term. In this case Trump is still in his first term.

I mean I understand what you're saying, but I'm just telling you how they would spin it. And it would work.

You were right the first time. Pancreatic cancer is still a death sentence 90% of the time.

2nd term is not guaranteed, and McConnells excuse was that it was an election year.

I think from the reading this is another cancer that attached itself.

Look out everyone! The left is going to throw another tantrum.

Your ilk has thrown a four year tantrum by electing Trump. He's one giant tantrum.

What a biting comeback. It looks like you might be up for some 'did not, did to' next.

I'm just sayin'

Trump is a notorious tantrum thrower. Would you like for me to show you a few?

Just pointing out how people in glass houses sometimes like to throw stones.

This from the guy that just posted this:

"Look out everyone! The left is going to throw another tantrum."

That was to mock you over your riots comment. Instead of destroying other people's property, maybe you guys could just stamp your feet, pull your hair, and hold your breath until you pass out.

"." ...because you are not worth it.

It's funny. Erik seems to be suggesting we employ Trump's tactics.

Not at all. I don't recall Trump calling everyone that doesn't agree with him a nazi or racist.

He's used a lot of other names. It seems you don't care about name calling at all. Just what names they're being called and who is being called names.

J/C

I don't always agree with RBG, but I respect what she has accomplished and the strides she made for women, no doubt.

As far as her seat goes on the SCOTUS - I think both sides should realize her health is more important that trying to play politics.

That genie came out of the bottle long ago.

Wish RBG only the best... I hope she lives another 10 years.

Truth hits hardest. Don't like being called those things stop supporting them. And you go ahead and paint the left like temper tantrum throwing children, we know who the adults in the room really are. No way in hell Trump gets to pick a new justice next year, period.

No one supports them, except other extremists. Trump isn't one of those.

Kick and scream. Kick and scream.

Lie and deny, lie and deny.

Are you okay mentally?

Such a troll. He's trying to say Trump is not racist or fascist. That's a lie. He's in denial. And if you think that too, so are you.

Sorry bud, just because you say it 15 times a day doesn't make it true to anyone other than you.

I know you follow the main stream media, and they've been feeding you garbage for over 3 years, and you eat it up like it's caviar.

I love this last part of your post. It describes EXACTLY what the problem is:
So, I'm a racist and a fascist, according to you? Who are you? What do you know about me? Oh, you know nothing about me. Cool.

Damn man, you've tried collusion, you've told us Trump wouldn't make it 1 year, you, in your mind, imprisoned him over things that haven't even happened. Dude, your track record is lacking. In fact, you're 0 for 50, or more.

I do enjoy reading your crap, just so I can laugh.

Look, you've called me more names than I can list. And while it might make you feel good, I know deep down in any heart you may have, it doesn't. Hatred is a bad thing to have. But dude, you have it. Bad.

It used to offend me when you called me a racist, a fascist, a xenophobe, and however many other names you sling about. As I've watched you post, I see you are nothing to be concerned about. Nothing but a name caller who claims to only be doing the same as others.

. not up to it tonight arch.