WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has missed a month of Supreme Court arguments as she recovers from lung cancer surgery. Like much of what goes on away from public view at the Supreme Court, how the justices deal with a colleague’s absence can be opaque. The Supreme Court has no similar arrangement. Because of his illness, the court ordered a new round of arguments in eight cases in the spring of 1975, an unusually large number. At arguments, Douglas “had moments of lucidity and energy followed by near incoherence and sleep,” authors Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote in “The Brethren,” their book about the court.

Source: National Post February 13, 2019 05:14 UTC