Breaking: Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized (Again), But Released
The Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Health Watch continues. This just in, from the AP:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had cancer surgery earlier this year, was briefly hospitalized overnight after having a bad reaction to some medicine.A statement from the court says Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center Wednesday night and released Thursday morning.
Doctors say Ginsburg had an adverse reaction to a sleeping aid combined with cold medicine. She took the medicine in preparation for an overnight flight to London, but was taken off the airplane after she experienced extreme drowsiness causing her to fall from her seat.
At least she didn’t fall asleep on the bench this time. We’d wish RBG a speedy recovery, but it seems that she has already recovered.
Ginsburg Briefly Hospitalized, Released Thurs. [Associated Press]
Earlier: Breaking: Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized
Update: Justice Ginsburg Is Back on the Job
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About time
They were just checking. You know, to see if she was still alive...
here's to hoping she can make it another 15 months to January 7th, 2011.
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No I heard they were checking on her bleeding heart.
Wow, not only are you incredibly late on this- it happened last night, but you joke about an elderly cancer patient who is probably much worse off than they are letting on. You suck.
She's been brain dead for years. She's the new Terri Schiavo, except this timeliberals aren't clamoring to kill her.
Uh, it may have happened last night, but there is no sign any info was released until this morning...the AP story is stamped 10:44 am ET.
She's a Cylon
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so the first commenter on the board knew about it at the exact moment the AP sent the story?
6 pawned by 8.
10 - Yes. The first comment showed up within 5 minutes of the AP story, and ATL's post came another 2 minutes after that.
11
It was flashed on CNBC before that. I came here to read the story after the flash and nada zip zilch zero.
-not 6
Sorry, but I have a hard time getting worked up over whether ATL picks up a TV story ten or fifteen or twenty minutes after the fact.
If ATL isn't fast enough in covering stories for you, just stick to CNBC. It's a great channel.
13 - CNBC is good, but they better watch out or Fox Business will overtake them.
Time to resign
She's strong as a bull. Elderly patients don't often beat back pancreatic cancer, an awesomely deadly form of the disease, as she did. She needs to hang in there. I'm getting her a case of wheatgrass, some organic oatmeal, and probiotic bran crackers as soon as I can get to whole foods.
4 - if you were trying to suggest that after january 7, 2011, someone other than obama would appoint RBG's successor, you should throw yourself in traffic immediately after you look into when obama's term expires.
She needs to hang it up.
17: when Democrats lose control of the Senate, it won't matter who Obama nominates, but rather who the Republicans will confirm - that is why RBG will be pressured to step down at the end of the current term, so another true believer like Soto can be installed
Got it?
17 - the 7th is when the new Senate is sworn in.
Justice Diane Wood, please! If somebody steps down soon, DPW might not be too old.
Why do SCOTUS Justices insist on hanging around until they die at their desk (a-la Renquist)? I know it's a tired out question, bet it's a valid question.
Surely there is someone capable of matching or replacing Ginsburg's legal prowess, which would then allow the Justice to spend her apparent final days with family and friends?
4, very tacky.
Where's her birth certificate?
9, I'll need to run some tests to confirm that.
The barb about falling asleep on the bench was gratuitous and disrespectful. Shame on you, Lat.
I heard that Scalia clipped his toenails last night, please blog about that too!!
Hang on, Ruth!
Under ObamaCare she would have been "made comfortable" and put on the pathway at least 10 years ago.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/lizhunt/6322738/Pathway-for-the-elderly-that-leads-to-legal-execution.html
Booze?
Ok, yea great, but Nobel Boy replacing a liberal with a liberal is not news.
Bring me news (gossip even) that dumb bell has health problems and may resign ect.
What is a gossip rag for, if not for gossip? Lay-off central?
That only goes so far....
Guys in my high school used to get so high on pills and liquor that they fell out of their seats all the time, it was no big deal.
The justice who won and wil forever hold the award for doggedly staying past one’s physical prime is California's own McComb, J.--who hung on not only past the point of snoozing on the bench, but past the point of incontinence on the bench.
That is until age 82, when a special judicial tribunal acted in May of 1977 to involuntary retire the pants wetting justice from the California Supreme Court.
Fond of dissenting in his later years, he often authored dissenting opinions that simply consisted of the words "I dissent."
Serves her right for digging through my stash when I was in the baño. I think she popped some my hormone pills too.
Manténgase lejos, perra!
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