Justice Ginsburg: Cancer Surgery This Morning...

[Mountain Man]

Ginsburg cancels two upcoming speaking engagements.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...g-engagements/

Rumor is that she's battling pneumonia, which is certainly plausible, but of course, there is no official confirmation. Last official word from over a week ago is that her recovery is "on track".

[rogue06]

Ginsburg cancels two upcoming speaking engagements.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...g-engagements/

Rumor is that she's battling pneumonia, which is certainly plausible, but of course, there is no official confirmation. Last official word from over a week ago is that her recovery is "on track".

A not so optimistic view:

Source: THE MEDIA IS FURIOUSLY SPINNING THE STATE OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG�S HEALTH

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I think the take away from all this is very few know how she is doing but there is a lot of speculation.

[One Bad Pig]

Would they bother removing the nodules if her cancer had metastasized? I thought at that point they typically switch to palliative care.

[Mountain Man]

Would they bother removing the nodules if her cancer had metastasized? I thought at that point they typically switch to palliative care.

It depends. Every case is different, and there's no such thing as "one size fits all" medical care.

[rogue06]

Would they bother removing the nodules if her cancer had metastasized? I thought at that point they typically switch to palliative care.

It would likely depend on whether they noticed it before or after removing the nodules

[DesertBerean]

[One Bad Pig]

Right now there is a growing "Cult of Ginsburg" on the left, what with multiple Hollywood fawning movies, the CNN documentary about her and the like. I wonder if that feeling of adoration and veneration might turn to anger if her failing health allows Trump to nominate her replacement. Going from liberal darling and heroine to detested pariah. The fact that the far left Mother Jones is bringing this up indicates it is indeed possible.

Source: What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong

Fans defended her choice not to retire under President Obama. Now it may be too late.


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She's even in the new Lego 2 movie (in the trailer, no less).

[Cow Poke]

She's BAAAAAAaaaaaaaaack!!!!!

[carpedm9587]

She's BAAAAAAaaaaaaaaack!!!!!

This quote caught my eye: "Supporters are hoping she will be able to remain on the court until a Democrat wins the White House and is able to name her successor."

Talk about an understatement. I personally know atheists who are praying for this!

[Sparko]

She's BAAAAAAaaaaaaaaack!!!!!

Half-Human, Half-Robot Justice Enters Supreme Court, Introduces Self As Ruth Bader Gins-Borg

[carpedm9587]

Half-Human, Half-Robot Justice Enters Supreme Court, Introduces Self As Ruth Bader Gins-Borg

OK - now THAT's funny...

[rogue06]

Source: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For Cancer

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.

The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg's pancreas. The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg's bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court.

Doctors at Sloan Kettering said further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes just months after Ginsburg was operated on for lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old justice has been treated for cancer in various forms over the past 20 years.

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City," a statement from the Supreme Court read. "The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor.

"As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."

The Supreme Court's statement refers to a "stereotactic ablative radiation." Dr. Timothy Cannon, a gastrointestinal oncology specialist at Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia who was not involved in Ginsburg's treatment, said, "That is the cutting-edge new cancer treatment, but it is not a cure for a pancreatic mass."

The statement from the court does not say what type of tumor it is. "The mystery is what kind of cancer this is," Cannon said. "Is it a slow-growing metastases of her lung cancer? Is it a recurrence of her pancreatic cancer from 10 years ago or is it a new cancer in someone predisposed to getting cancer?"

As he left for the G-7 meeting in France, President Trump said of the justice, "Our thoughts and prayers are with her. We wish her well. She's strong, she's tough. She's pulled through a lot."



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Ginsburg has been diagnosed with cancer three times previously, colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and lung cancer in 2018 and now pancreatic cancer again this year.

[Cow Poke]

This quote caught my eye: "Supporters are hoping she will be able to remain on the court until a Democrat wins the White House and is able to name her successor."

I really doubt she can last another 6 years.

[Mountain Man]

I have no doubt it was her plan to retire when Hillary become president. Now it seems she's refusing to retire purely out of spite for Trump. But honestly, the woman has no business making judicial decisions. Anybody who has watched any of her interviews from the past couple of years knows that the woman is barely coherent and can't even speak a whole sentence without causing one to wonder if she's nodded off between words. She makes a good case for scenarios that should trigger the mandatory retirement of Supreme Court justices.

[rogue06]

I have no doubt it was her plan to retire when Hillary become president. Now it seems she's refusing to retire purely out of spite for Trump. But honestly, the woman has no business making judicial decisions. Anybody who has watched any of her interviews from the past couple of years knows that the woman is barely coherent and can't even speak a whole sentence without causing one to wonder if she's nodded off between words. She makes a good case for scenarios that should trigger the mandatory retirement of Supreme Court justices.

Apparently she has told people that she wants to be on the Supreme Court for as long as former Justice John Paul Stevens, who served for 35 years. She has 9 years to go.