TAMPA (WFLA) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged after being hospitalized for a possible infection, the court said.
Ginsburg, 87, was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland early Tuesday morning.
Ginsburg had gone to a hospital in Washington on Monday evening after experiencing fever and chills. She had a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August when she was treated for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. The court said in a statement Tuesday that she would “stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.”
Ginsburg, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton and joined the court in 1993, has been treated four times for cancer. In addition to the tumor on her pancreas last year, she was previously treated for colorectal cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer in 2009. She had lung surgery to remove cancerous growths in December 2018.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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