Ginsburg Is Back on the Bench, Despite Senator’s Gloomy Prediction
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back on the bench and is in her usual inquisitive form, less than three weeks after undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer.
MSNBC described Ginsburg as “beaming” as she entered the courtroom. During oral arguments, she was a “frequent and energetic questioner,” the story reports. CBS News and Bloomberg also had stories.
Ginsburg’s mood may surprise Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who predicted on Saturday that Ginsburg could likely die within nine months, according to an account in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Ginsburg has “bad cancer. The kind that you don’t get better from,” Bunning said.
“Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after [being diagnosed] with pancreatic cancer,” Bunning reportedly said.
Ginsburg had surgery for Stage 1 pancreatic cancer on Feb. 5, but she had vowed to be back on the job when the U.S. Supreme Court reconvened this week. Surgeons removed Ginsburg’s spleen and a malignant tumor less than 1-centimerter in size from her pancreas.
