Death isn’t coming for Ruth Bader Ginsburg anytime soon.
The Supreme Court justice recently announced that she’d undergone treatment for yet another bout with cancer, but at a public appearance this weekend, Ginsburg assured her supporters that she’s very much “alive.”
“I am alive”
The Washington Examiner reports that Ginsburg was speaking at a panel discussion at the National Book Festival in Washington on Saturday when she was asked by NPR legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg: “How are you feeling?”
“This audience can see that I am alive,” Ginsburg replied with a chuckle. The crowd erupted in cheers.
Once the roar of the crowd died down a moment later, Ginsburg added: “And I am on my way to being very well.”
“This audience can see I am alive. And I am on my way to being very well.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival. pic.twitter.com/Q98rfpFnaO
— The Hill (@thehill) August 31, 2019
Back for Round 4
In an Aug. 23 press release, the Supreme Court revealed that Justice Ginsburg had just completed a three-week round of radiation treatment for a malignant tumor that was discovered on her pancreas during a routine check-up.
The outpatient treatment, performed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, was deemed a success.
“The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” the court’s statement declared, according to Politico. “No further treatment is needed at this time.”
Serious concerns
But while Ginsburg may be on the up-and-up, her health still remains a serious concern for many liberals who are concerned that President Donald Trump will get another chance to appoint a new Supreme Court justice.
Indeed, this is Ginsburg’s fourth battle with cancer in the past 20 years; she previously survived another bout of pancreatic cancer, as well as lung and colon cancer.
For now, at least, it appears that Ginsburg is doing well, and she has made it clear that she has no intention of retiring any time soon. But that won’t stop supporters and detractors alike from wondering how much longer the 86-year-old’s health will allow her to remain on the Supreme Court.
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