Ginsburg to miss Supreme Court arguments for first time ever

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Ginsburg to miss Supreme Court arguments for first time ever
By Emily Birnbaum - 01/07/19 09:34 AM EST

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss a Supreme Court session on Monday for the first time in her more than two decades on the bench.

The high court's spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Ginsburg is recovering and working from home after surgery to remove two cancerous nodules from her left lung on Dec. 21, The Associated Press reported.

The nodules were discovered during tests in November to diagnose and treat rib fractures Ginsburg sustained from a fall.

The Supreme Court justices are set to convene their first public session of the year to hear arguments in two cases.

Lydia Wheeler contributed

Updated at 9:39 a.m.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/424124-ginsburg-to-miss-supreme-court-session-for-first-time-ever

[Right_in_Virginia]

Obama's big mistake was not letting her retire during his Presidency.

Now she's got to hold on through 2019 so they can delay her replacement until after the 2020 election.

[Right_in_Virginia]

If she misses the arguments, can she still vote?

[skeeter]

It would not surprise me in the least if Ginsberg going toes up is the catalyst that finally sends the left over the edge en masse.

[Wingnut]

The reports of her successful surgery and recovery are highly over stated.  The next time she wears her black robe it will be when the embalmers place her in her casket.

[XenaLee]

It would not surprise me in the least if Ginsberg going toes up is the catalyst that finally sends the left over the edge en masse.

Yes, but..... still.... it will be awfully hard to tell the difference.  I mean... what more could they possibly do to demonstrate being 'over the edge'?   

[Cyber Liberty]

If she misses the arguments, can she still vote?

She should recuse, but I have every confidence she will claim the transcripts are swell and she can properly weigh the contents.

[austingirl]

Hang it up, Ruth, you leftist who holds the laws of other countries above the Constitution.

[Frank Cannon]

The reports of her successful surgery and recovery are highly over stated.  The next time she wears her black robe it will be when the embalmers place her in her casket.

LOL. Top Notch!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Time to go, RBG.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

It would not surprise me in the least if Ginsberg going toes up is the catalyst that finally sends the left over the edge en masse.

Yup.

Kavenaugh ^ 11.

[240B]

The reports of her successful surgery and recovery are highly over stated.  The next time she wears her black robe it will be when the embalmers place her in her casket.

The last I heard she was playing pickup midnight basketball in the park, and training for the marathon. BTW, she could already be dead. We would never know. They would never tell us.

She's going to go out like a double John McCain. We won't know anything until a year or more after she passes. All her handlers have to do is to keep the body hidden in a freezer somewhere. No body, no death occurred. All the way up to the election.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The last I heard she was playing pickup midnight basketball in the park, and training for the marathon. BTW, she could already be dead. We would never know. They would never tell us.

She's going to go out like a double John McCain. We won't know anything until a year or more after she passes. All her handlers have to do is to keep the body hidden in a freezer somewhere. No body, no death occurred. All the way up to the election.

She'll be the first USSJ to have her brain kept in a jar.

[Polly Ticks]

She should recuse, but I have every confidence she will claim the transcripts are swell and she can properly weigh the contents.

If she can't manage to stay awake during the arguments themselves when she is on the bench, I can't imagine she'd be able to do so while reading them instead.

[Frank Cannon]

The Ginsberg movie On the Basis of Sex is a bomb. In 2 weeks it brought in less than $4 million and that was over the holidays.

[skeeter]

If she can't manage to stay awake during the arguments themselves when she is on the bench, I can't imagine she'd be able to do so while reading them instead.

Her staff of leftwing crackpot staffers have probably been writing her decisions for years anyway.

[libertybele]

If she misses the arguments, can she still vote?

Good question.  I know that she voted from her hospital bed after her lung surgery.  It's being reported that she's keeping up through briefs ... but not sure if she'll be able to vote.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good question.  I know that she voted from her hospital bed after her lung surgery.  It's being reported that she's keeping up through briefs ... but not sure if she'll be able to vote.

She'll vote. See this from upthread:

She should recuse, but I have every confidence she will claim the transcripts are swell and she can properly weigh the contents.

[libertybele]

The reports of her successful surgery and recovery are highly over stated.  The next time she wears her black robe it will be when the embalmers place her in her casket.

Exactly.  She's had cancer before, she had a stent placed in 2014, she had just recovered from fractured ribs earlier this year and now she's recuperating from cancerous nodules being removed from a lobe of her lung.  The last several procedures have been in her 80's and I questioned the morbidity risk of her recent procedure.  Many times surgery isn't an option for someone her age.  The older a patient is undergoing surgery there is also a huge risk of cognitive decline.

My hunch is that we won't see her seated back on the bench, she will continue her leave of absence long enough for either 2020 to roll around in hopes that a DEM is seated, or she'll leave on a permanent vacation to the pearly gates.

I wish her well...

[jpsb]

She is not long for this world, I wish her the best but Trump will be appointing another SC Justice soon. If the seat open in 2019 Amy Barrett if the seat opens in 2020 someone more acceptable to the D's (Judge Larson?). But no matter what the GOP will fill it.

[Snarknado]

She'll be the first USSJ to have her brain kept in a jar.

A nail polish bottle should suffice...

[andy58-in-nh]

She'll be the first USSJ to have her brain kept in a jar.

[Wingnut]

She'll be the first USSJ to have her brain kept in a jar.

They will place it in The Eymorg Controller.

[Cyber Liberty]

She is not long for this world, I wish her the best but Trump will be appointing another SC Justice soon. If the seat open in 2019 Amy Barrett if the seat opens in 2020 someone more acceptable to the D's (Judge Larson?). But no matter what the GOP will fill it.

If it's 2020 there probably won't be an appointment.

[XenaLee]

If it's 2020 there probably won't be an appointment.

So the reality is.... she only has to hold on (or hold out) until next year.

Swell.