Amy Howe

Nov 23 2019

Ginsburg hospitalized with “chills and fever” (UPDATED)

UPDATED: The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office reported on Sunday afternoon that Ginsburg had been discharged from the hospital; she is “home and doing well.”

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Friday night. The Supreme Court announced tonight that the 86-year-old Ginsburg, who has been treated for cancer four times, was “initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital” in Washington, D.C., after she experienced “chills and fever.” Ginsburg was then transferred to Johns Hopkins, the court reported, “for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection.” After receiving intravenous antibiotics and fluids, Ginsburg’s “symptoms have abated and she expects to be released from the hospital as early as Sunday morning.”

The Supreme Court is currently in recess. The justices will return to the bench again on December 2, when they will hear oral argument in a challenge to New York City’s now-repealed ban on transporting licensed handguns outside the city’s limits.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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