Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital after the last medical procedure.


“He’s home and he’s fine,” said a statement from the court’s public information office.

Ginsburg had been hospitalized earlier this week for a non-surgical procedure to replace a bile duct stent that was originally placed last year, the court said. It was his second trip to the hospital in July and comes two weeks after the 87-year-old justice announced that his cancer had returned.
Earlier this month, Ginsburg was treated for a possible infection at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after having a fever and chills, and underwent an “endoscopic procedure to clean a bile duct stent that was placed last August,” the court said at the time.

Ginsburg also announced on July 17, after the Supreme Court had completed a highly successful period, that a scan in February had revealed injuries to his liver.

According to his statement, the pancreatic cancer that Ginsburg was treated for in 2009 came back again, this time in the liver, and he tried one of the new cancer immunotherapies, but failed to shrink tumors. The biweekly chemotherapy he’s undergoing is giving “positive results,” he said at the time.

Due to his age and long medical history, Ginsburg’s health has sparked widespread interest given his status as a liberal icon. The possibility that President Donald Trump can appoint a third judge for the Supreme Court would also be a major electoral problem.

Ginsburg has had several episodes of cancer. He received radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer in 2019 and had some tumors removed from his lung in 2018. He had colon cancer in 1999.

But Ginsburg has proven himself adept at doing his job without interruption despite his health problems. When judges heard oral arguments over the phone in May due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ginsburg participated from his hospital room while recovering from a benign gallbladder condition.

This story has been updated with additional background information.

CNN’s Dan Berman contributed to this report.

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