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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Undergoes Surgery for Lung Cancer


The Supreme Court issued a statement announcing that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery today (December 21) for lung cancer in New York City.

Just last month, Ginsburg was briefly hospitalized for broken ribs suffered during a fall. According to the Supreme Court’s statement, the nodules were discovered. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a pulmonary lobectomy today at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered incidentally during tests performed at George Washington University Hospital to diagnose and treat rib fractures sustained in a fall on November 7,” it reads.

The good news is that doctors believe that they were able to remove all of the cancer and that it has not spread. “According to the thoracic surgeon, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, both nodules removed during surgery were found to be malignant on initial pathology evaluation,” the statement continues. “Post-surgery, there was no evidence of any remaining disease. Scans performed before surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Currently, no further treatment is planned. Justice Ginsburg is resting comfortably and is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days. Updates will be provided as they become available.”

This is not the first time Ginsburg has battled cancer. In 1999, she had surgery for colorectal cancer and then in 2009 she was treated for the early stages of pancreatic cancer. “I said I will do this job as long as I can do it full steam,” Ginsburg said on Sunday (December 16) at a screening of On the Basis of Sex, the movie based on her early work as a lawyer.

Social media users were quick to send their support and wishes of a speedy recovery to the woman affectionately called the Notorious RBG.

This story will be updated with new information as it is available.





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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized After a Fall


Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized early Thursday morning after falling in her office Wednesday evening and fracturing three ribs, according to a statement from the court.

“She went home, but after experiencing discomfort overnight, went to George Washington University Hospital early this morning,” the statement said. “Tests showed that she fractured three ribs on her left side and she was admitted for observation and treatment.”

Ginsburg, a lifelong champion of women’s rights, has become a cultural icon and is revered and beloved by feminists across America. The Notorious RBG, as she is often called, was the subject of a documentary earlier this year that covered her incredible career, marriage, and, yes, even her workout routine—which is incredibly impressive for an 85-year-old.

“These days we rarely go out without people—mostly women—asking to take a picture or telling her they admire her,” Ginsburg’s granddaughter Clara Spera wrote of her “Bubbie” for Glamour in May. “It’s equally strange and touching for me to see a young woman, probably my age, ask Bubbie if she can give her a hug.”

Spera further explained her grandmother’s significance to women of all ages. “As a young lawyer, Bubbie won several landmark gender equality cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970s. Most people who wear ‘You Can’t Spell Truth Without Ruth’ T-shirts or sport ‘I Dissent’ tote bags might not be able to name any of them or point to a specific opinion she’s written on the Court since. But they don’t need to,” she says. “They know that her search for justice and for legal and social equality has been relentless. She doesn’t have one case or moment that has defined her career. Instead, to many, she’s a feminist icon because of her tireless persistence at inching us all closer to equality.”

Given the current makeup of the Supreme Court, which shifted toward the conservative side with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in October, and the overwhelming affection for RBG, there were strong reactions to the news of her hospitalization on social media.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, RBG.

This story is developing and we will update accordingly.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Second Woman Supreme Court Justice, Is Celebrating 25 Years on the Bench


On August 10, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg took her judicial oath at the White House, becoming the first Jewish woman and only the second woman justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court. Today she celebrates 25 years on the bench—a major milestone in a career that has turned her into a proud defender of women’s rights and one of the country’s most notorious cultural icons.

There are many reasons the nation loves Ginsburg (her intense workout included), but her work as a feminist trailblazer started way before she took a seat on the highest court in the land. Ginsburg was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton following the retirement of former Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and she was already a force in the legal world. She had graduated at the top of her class at Cornell University and later attended Harvard Law School, where she was the first female member of the Harvard Law Review. She eventually graduated from Columbia Law, where she was also the first female professor hired on tenure track, which means her job at the institution was secure. Ginsburg also cofounded the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU and worked there until President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1980.

After her Supreme Court nomination, Ginsburg gave an acceptance address on June 14, 1993, that highlighted many of the challenges she’d faced as a woman. She cited that there were less than 10 women in her 500-person law school class, and shared that not one law firm in New York City would hire her after she earned her degree. As women still fight for workplace and wage equality, it’s not hard to see how Ginsburg’s speech is just as relevant today as it was 25 years ago.

She was confirmed by the Senate in a 96–3 vote. As CNN Politics points out, her remarks following the constitutional oath ceremony shed light on the importance of diversity in the American justice system. “A system of justice will be the richer for diversity of background and experience. It will be the poorer, in terms of appreciating what is at stake and the impact of its judgments, if all of its members are cast from the same mold,” she said.

RBG has written some of the Supreme Court’s most notable decisions, including 1996’s United States v. Virginia, a case that struck down a male-only admittance policy at the Virginia Military Institute. In recent years she has fought against arbitration policies that affect workers and women in particular, as well as Trump’s travel ban on majority Muslim countries.

Despite such a historic run, many people have feared that RBG’s tenure might come to an end soon. After her colleague, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, announced his retirement, social media users went into a frenzy, pledging to protect RBG at all costs. “I’m buying Ruth Bader Ginsburg an Anytime Fitness membership, 10 years of Vitamins, and a lifetime of Smoothies…” one Twitter user wrote.

Luckily, RBG assuaged everyone’s fears last month when she said she’s not going anywhere in the near future. “I’m now 85,” she said. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so I think I have about at least five more years.”

That’s all we need to assure ourselves there are many more RBG milestones to come.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She Plans on Staying on the Supreme Court Until She's 90


With the makeup of the Supreme Court bench currently in limbo, there’s at least one seat we can count on to stay filled for the foreseeable future. In an interview over the weekend, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she plans on staying in her position until she’s 90—giving fans of the Notorious RBG a small but much-needed assurance of stability for the next five years, at least.

After attending a performance of The Originalist, a play about her late colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, in New York City on Sunday, Ginsburg spoke to CNN about her plans for the future. “I’m now 85,” she said. “My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so I think I have about at least five more years.” In fact, CNN reports, the prolific justice—who was appointed to her seat in 1993 by President Bill Clinton—secured her law clerks for the next two SCOTUS terms earlier this year, guaranteeing that she’ll hold her position until at least 2020. Ginsburg went on to say that there’s no way she’ll be forced from her seat before she’s ready: “You can’t set term limits, because to do that you’d have to amend the Constitution. Article 3 says…we hold our offices during good behavior,” she said, joking, “And most judges are very well behaved.”

Ginsburg also spoke to CNN about the subject of the play, saying that Scalia, a conservative foil to her more liberal viewpoint, was her favorite sparring partner before his death in February 2016. “If I had my choice of dissenters when I was writing for the court, it would be Justice Scalia,” Ginsburg said. “Sometimes it was like a Ping-Pong game,” she continued, adding that going head-to-head with Scalia helped her further refine her arguments and opinions.

Though Ginsburg is clearly still going strong after 25 years as a Supreme Court justice, the rest of the bench has recently undergone a major shake-up. Following Scalia’s death, Republicans in Congress blocked President Barack Obama’s nomination for a replacement, allowing President Donald Trump to appoint the historically conservative Neil Gorsuch in his place in early 2017.

More recently, the relatively moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he’d be stepping down from his post after 30 years on the Supreme Court, allowing Trump to appoint yet another, more-conservative justice and thus, critics worry, potentially creating a clear path to rolling back reproductive rights. As many Twitter users begged after Kennedy announced his retirement, Justice Ginsburg, a staunch champion for women, must be protected at all costs.

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See Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the First Trailer for *On the Basis of Sex*


Last year, Felicity Jones signed on to portray Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an upcoming biopic called On the Basis of Sex—and now the first trailer for the movie is here.

If these two-plus minutes are any indication, On the Basis of Sex will focus solely on Bader Ginsburg as a young lawyer battling sexism in both her career and the culture at large. The first scene shows her literally walking up the stairs of Capitol Hill amid a sea of dudes in suits—and that image permeates the entire trailer.

It seems Bader Ginsburg faced sexism everywhere she turned. She lived under the shadow of her husband, Martin (played by Armie Hammer), was called a “ball-buster” for gradating at the top of her class, and was rejected from jobs all because she was a woman. “If the law differentiates on the basis of sex, then how will women and men ever become equals,” Bader Ginsburg asks at the top of the trailer.

But attempts to change this by taking on a case that could potentially overturn decades of gender discrimination. Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer star alongside Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Jack Reynor, and Kathy Bates. Mimi Leder, known for films like Deep Impact and The Peacemaker, is directing.

“The word ‘woman’ does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution,” a judge says to Bader Ginsburg at one point in the trailer, to which she replies, “Nor does the word ‘freedom,’ your honor.”

Check out the trailer, below:

On the Basis of Sex hits theaters on December 25.

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Twitter Users Promise to Protect Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at All Costs After SCOTUS Shakeup


After Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench this week, questions quickly surfaced about what his exit means for the future of women, people of color and the LGBTQ community, whose rights are often on the line in high-profile cases that come before the justices.

But there was one other person the internet immediately focused their attention on: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Kennedy’s retirement sent Twitter into a full panic spiral, as people worried that perhaps RBG, who is 85, might also be planning her exit. Ginsburg is the oldest Supreme Court Justice, and she’s already five years past the average age at which most Justices have retired.

“Protect RBG at all cost!” tweets flying across social media read, with many users promising to send her vitamins, prayers, and even 24/7 security detail. “I’m buying Ruth Bader Ginsburg an Anytime Fitness membership, 10 years of Vitamins, and a lifetime of Smoothies…” one Twitter user wrote. “I’m becoming an organ donor but only if my organs are going to Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” someone else said.

The good news for nervous RBG fans is that she’s still going strong. While many predicted she might call it quits during the Obama administration, the planking heroine of an octogenarian has kept on. She even hinted earlier this year that she hoped to follow the path of former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired at the age of 90. According to the Los Angeles Times, she also said that she’s in “very good” health and that “as long as I can do the job full steam, I will be here.”

Plus, there’s recorded proof of her fitness level here, which means Twitter users can rest easy.

While the world went full-blown Liam Neeson in Taken over the Notorious RBG, she was busy reacting to Kennedy’s news like the boss she is. Kennedy, who was considered the Supreme Court’s key swing vote, could throw off the conservative-liberal balance of the bench with his retirement, but there was no trace of anxiety in Ginsburg’s sweet tribute to him.

“I will miss the pleasure of his company at our Conference, his helpful suggestions on circulating opinions, his recommendations of art exhibitions to visit with my chambers staff, and much more,” she said in a statement. “For the good he has done during the 43 years he has served as a member of the federal judiciary, he has earned a rousing Bravo.” She also called Kennedy a “true gentleman, a caring jurist and a grand colleague in all respects.”

What a class act. (But also, please never retire.)

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