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Look Who's Back! (Spoiler Alert: It's Ruth Bader Ginsburg!)

Yay! She's back to work!

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Listen I know there are a lot of exclamation points in the title, but it is warranted! After missing work for the first time in her career on the Supreme Court, the one, the only, the notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back!

As most Court watchers (and those that are merely terrified Donald Trump may be afforded the opportunity to appoint yet another Supreme Court justice) know, in late December Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a cancerous growth removed from her left lung. The nodes were only found in testing after RBG suffered a fall in November, breaking three ribs. Or as I like to think of it, when God herself knocked Justice Ginsburg over so the doctors could find the cancer early.

Since then she’s been working from home, but hasn’t made an appearance in court. Today that changed, as reported by The Hill:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was back at the court on Friday for the justices’ private conference.

The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office told The Hill that Ginsburg was attending the regular closed-door meeting in which the justices consider requests to review cases.

On the agenda for today is considering the Trump admin’s request to fast track an appeal of S.D.N.Y. Judge Jesse Furman’s decision to block the addition of citizenship questions to the 2020 census.

There are oral arguments scheduled for Tuesday, but whether RBG will take the bench that day has not as of yet been confirmed.

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