Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of a possible infection, according to a statement from the high court's public information officer. Ginsburg, 87, was hospitalized at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on Tuesday morning and is now 'resting comfortably', the statement said. The court spokesperson said that Ginsburg underwent an endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that she had implanted last year. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (seen last September) has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of a possible infection, according to a statementIt marks the latest health scare for Ginsburg, the court's oldest justice, who in November 2018 fractured three ribs after a fall in her office. Then in August 2019, the Supreme Court announced that Ginsburg had recently completed three weeks of focused radiation treatment to ablate a tumor found in her pancreas over the summer.

Source: Daily Mail July 14, 2020 21:38 UTC