What position Ruth Bader Ginsburg hold today?”
The Supreme Court’s statement on the hospitalization Thursday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center this evening after feeling ill in her chambers earlier in the day. The Justice felt ill at 4:50 p.m., about an hour after an iron sucrose infusion to treat an iron deficiency anemia that was administered at the Office of the Attending Physician. The Justice underwent a comprehensive assessment of health in July 2009. This involved medical evaluation, imaging scans and comprehensive blood tests. The result of this evaluation was that she was in completely normal health with the exception of a low red blood cell count caused by deficiency of iron. Intravenous iron therapy was administered in a standard fashion. One hour following the completion of this infusion, she felt faint, developed light headedness and fatigue. Medical assistance was summoned from the Office of the Attending Physician, and medical ev
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993 and generally votes with the liberal wing of the court. She is the second female Justice — Sandra Day O’Connor was the first — and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Court. Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle. She engaged in advocacy as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. She served as a professor at Rutgers School of Law—Newark and Columbia Law School. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colorectal cancer and underwent chemotherapy for eight months. On February 5, 2009, she w
