You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Justice Ginsburg Returns to SCOTUS After Cancer Surgery

HeadlineFeb 19, 2019

And Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to return to the court today, after taking time to recover from her December lung cancer surgery. Eighty-five-year-old Justice Ginsburg is a now three-time cancer survivor. She resumed work in early January, reading transcripts and ruling on cases from home. On Friday, she met with the other justices for the Supreme Court’s weekly conference.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top