Unless MedStar Washington Hospital Center served turkey to its inpatients yesterday, Ruth Ginsburg missed out on the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. The Supreme Court Justice veteran was only released from the Washington, D.C. hospital today following a Wednesday surgery.
Ginsburg, 81, sought medical care three days earlier on Nov. 25 when she felt discomfort in her chest following exercise. The next day surgeons placed a stent in her right coronary artery to clear blockage.
Her quick release following the procedure indicates the 21-year SCOTUS veteran maintains strengths in addition to those represented by her progressive stances. In fact, she will return to the bench on Monday, according to a U.S. Supreme Court spokesperson, solidifying a statement Ginsburg gave in a Sept. 2014 interview:
?Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have? If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. (Democrats in the U.S. Senate) took off the filibuster for lower federal court appointments, but it remains for this court. So anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided. As long as I can do the job full steam?. I think I’ll recognize when the time comes that I can’t any longer. But now I can.?
Also included in Ginsburg’s 55-year career are her work as a law school professor at both Rutgers and Columbia universities and creation of the Women’s Rights Project under the ACLU, which she served as general counsel for seven years.
Since first appointed to SCOTUS by Pres. Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg has also overcome two incidents of cancer.
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