Supreme Court of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg He was admitted to the hospital early Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court said. She is being treated for a possible infection.
“The judge is resting comfortably and will remain in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment,” court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement Tuesday.
Ginsburg was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, Monday night after experiencing fever and chills. He then underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins on Tuesday to clean a bile duct stent that was placed in August 2019.
The 87-year-old justice has had several health problems in recent years, including a hospitalization in may for acute cholecystitis, which was described as a “benign gallbladder condition”. She participated in oral arguments by teleconference.
Ginsburg survived colon cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer 10 years later. She was treated for a tumor in the pancreas in August 2019. And in December 2018, two cancerous nodules were removed from her lungs. In January, Ginsburg announced that he was “cancer free.”
In June, Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after injuring his head in a fall. Roberts, 65, was treated at the hospital on June 21 and spent the night.
Jan Crawford contributed to this report.
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