I'm glad she's not feeling lightheaded anymore. Great reporting.

/sarcasm

i wish her good health.

but at the same time, i don't think she can really perform the job at the same level she did when healthy. really, who can battle pancreatic cancer and it's side effects without being distracted? at a certain point, justices just need to retire and yield to healthier, younger justices. both marshall and rehnquist were probably senile in their last years on the court. it is a pretty conceited of them to think that no other judge could be as good as them.

According to a thankful Senator Jim Bunning (R-Ky, Baseball Hall of Fame), Justice Ginsberg (sic) will be dead in 2 months.

Bunning can't be perfect -- except against the Mets.

---Met Fan

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I agree. What a pathetic display of self-importance by Ginsburg. Pathetic. She should retire immediately.

On the plus side, let's start an over/under pool on whether Bunning is right or not. I'd bet the under (that she doesn't last as long), but my dad told me never to bet with my heart.

I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck- we are all counting on her.

"The famously hardworking jurist 'was at her desk by early afternoon, the court said.'"

If Lat actually knew anything about working at the Court, instead of fondling the nutsacks of those who have, he'd know that Justice Ginsburg routinely arrives at the court around early afternoon.

Here's hoping she hangs on long enough that Obama doesn't have time to nominate a successor before he gets voted out of office in 2012.

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Amen. I don't think I can handle another wise minority.

here's to hoping she remains on the job until January 7, 2011. Obama had his best chance to nominate a left wing nut on the first try, but instead he got Sotoymoyor. After the upcoming masacre in the midterms, Dems would be lucky to keep their majority, let alone stop any filibusters. Hope & Change are dead.

ATL, you would be happy to report that a nonsensical liberal is back making policy, wouldn't you ...

Have you ever heard her in oral argument? She sounds like a dead person talking.

11 - What makes you think Sotomayor is anything but a left-wing nut?

Glad to hear that she is better and hope she stays healthy!

9 - full agreement

Glad she is okay! I was nervous when I first heard she was taken to the hospital. We need more Ginsburgs!!

14, I got this one. Her rulings.

Sometimes you can tell something about someone without breaking out your eye-charts and head-calipers.

I'd be lightheaded too if I had to haul those huge glasses around on my face... they must weigh 9 pounds per lens.

I swapped my cheap plastic desk chair for her nice big leather swivel chair when she was laid out at the hospital. If she notices, I'm just going to tell her she's crazy. Ha! Aye yi yi!

Yo Ginsburg, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Michael Jackson had one of the BEST rushes to the hospital OF ALL TIME!

-- Kanye

I'm glad that Justice Ginsburg has been able to return to work, and I wish her good health.

Whether we agree with their personal perspectives and judicial philosophies or not, Justices of the Supreme Court are human beings, not robots. Like everybody else, they can get sick, and sometimes that involves more than just a minor ailment. Like everybody else, they also age with time and gradually get old. That does not mean that we should discard them like garbage the moment that they show any sign of being at less than the absolute peak of their physical and mental powers.

We value our Justices not for youthful vigor, but for the lifetimes of accumulated learning, experience and wisdom that they bring to the Court. Those are things which require many years of living to acquire, things which someone old and frail may have in greater measure than someone young and vigorous.

This is, in all likelihood, why the Constitution grants the Justices of the Supreme Court lifetime tenure upon good behavior, instead of establishing some arbitrary age of retirement. The drafters of the Constitution evidently considered the value of having highly experienced Justices on the Court to be greater than the risk that some might occasionally outstay their best years.

There is certainly precedent for long tenure on the Court. Justice Holmes, for example, who had served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Civil War (and was wounded in action at Antietam and Fredericksburg), and who had been appointed to the Court in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt, did not retire from the Court until 1932, when he was 90 years of age.

One of the qualities that Justices are selected for, regardless of their individual perspectives or judicial philosophies, is a strong personal commitment to public service. Such a commitment includes exercising one's best judgment regarding whether to retire and, if so, when.

Personally, I disagreed strongly with many of the late Chief Justice Rehnquist's views on law and policy. From the autumn of 2004 on, it was apparent that his personal battle with cancer was causing him to miss numerous oral arguments before the Court. It might have been easy to criticize him for failing to retire in the face of debilitating illness. His refusal to surrender and his efforts to continue serving the public in the face of mortality were in some ways heroic, however. When he died, on September 3, 2005, he died in office. I didn't agree with his views at all, but I admired him for his courage in the face of adversity.

Whether you share Justice Ginsburg's viewpoint and judicial philosophy or not, and whether you happen to care for the timbre of her voice or not, she is one of the sharpest minds on the Court. She has served her country with intelligence, determination and distinction for a number of years, and she is continuing to do so despite an illness which might lead less resolute people to retire. Criticize her legal reasoning or decisions if you consider yourselves qualified to do so (which I rather doubt from the inanity of some of the comments posted here), but have some respect for a Justice who has the courage and willpower to continue focusing on serving the public despite the potential distractions of age and illness.

I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck- we are all counting on her.

Counting on her? What does that mean? Counting?

Counting on her to do what?

I keep hearing this, but it makes no sense. No one "needs" her to do anything.