RBG returns to Supreme Court after December surgery
by Katelyn Caralle
| February 15, 2019 10:53 AM
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back at the Supreme Court after months of a medical-related absence.
Ginsburg is likely to participate in the justices' private conferences, the court's press office said Friday. She will return to the bench on Tuesday for the first time since December surgery, in which two cancerous nodules were removed from her lung.
The cancer was discovered when Ginsburg took a fall and fractured three ribs in November and was admitted to George Washington Hospital.
Ginsburg's absence has been a politically-sensitive issue. President Trump has successfully nominated two Supreme Court justices. Ginsburg has long been an anchor of the court's liberal bloc and a Trump-appointed replacement would almost certainly push the nation's highest bench to the Right.
Ginsburg, 85, the eldest Supreme Court justice, earlier this month made her first public appearance after the surgery, when she attended “Notorious RBG in Song†— a performance about her life and career — at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
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