A Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized on Tuesday for possible infection, a court spokeswoman said.
The judge, 87, received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after experiencing fever and chills. Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement that the woman had undergone an operation to clean the bile duct and will remain in hospital "for a few days".
"The judge will rest comfortably and will remain in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment."
Ginsburg, the oldest Supreme Court judge, has suffered from a host of health cases in recent years. She said in January that she was "cancer-free" after undergoing treatment for what may be pancreatic cancer last year.
Last year, she underwent cancerous growth treatment on her lungs.
Ginsburg and the rest of the court just concluded a series of work, and issued rulings on President Donald Trump's financial records, LGBTQ rights, and the president's efforts to close the Obama-era program to protect dreamers from deportation and abortion rights, among other topics, in a two-week period.
President Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg, a liberal editor, to the highest US court in 1993. The court now has a conservative majority 5-4 - although it frustrated some of Trump's priorities in his recent decisions, which angered the president.
The judge, 87, received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after experiencing fever and chills. Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement that the woman had undergone an operation to clean the bile duct and will remain in hospital "for a few days".
"The judge will rest comfortably and will remain in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment."
Ginsburg, the oldest Supreme Court judge, has suffered from a host of health cases in recent years. She said in January that she was "cancer-free" after undergoing treatment for what may be pancreatic cancer last year.
Last year, she underwent cancerous growth treatment on her lungs.
Ginsburg and the rest of the court just concluded a series of work, and issued rulings on President Donald Trump's financial records, LGBTQ rights, and the president's efforts to close the Obama-era program to protect dreamers from deportation and abortion rights, among other topics, in a two-week period.
President Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg, a liberal editor, to the highest US court in 1993. The court now has a conservative majority 5-4 - although it frustrated some of Trump's priorities in his recent decisions, which angered the president.
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