Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence, will remain on the Supreme Court

[bluewater]

Source: NBC News and CNN

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a recurrence of cancer. The treatment is yielding "positive results." The liberal justice, 87, said she remains "fully able" to continue in her post.

Owing to her age and long medical history, Ginsburg's health is the subject of widespread interest given her status as a liberal icon. The prospect that President Donald Trump could name a third justice to the Supreme Court would also be a major election issue.
Earlier this week, Ginsburg was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after having a fever and chills, and undergoing an "endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August," the court said at the time.

Ginsburg said her cancer treatment is unrelated to this week's incident.

The court ended its term last week with a ruling upholding the ability of Congress and a New York prosecutor to attempt to obtain Trump's financial records. But the court this week has also ruled on two death penalty appeals and a Florida voting access case.
Ginsburg was also in the hospital in early May. At that time, she participated in oral arguments from her hospital bed, asking questions in a case concerning Obamacare's so-called contraceptive mandate.

Friday's statement indicates that the pancreatic cancer Ginsburg was treated for in 2009 has returned again, this time in her liver, and that she tried one of the new immunotherapies for cancer, but it failed to shrink the tumors. It is not liver cancer.
Gemcitabine is a standard chemotherapy treatment that is a mainstay for pancreatic cancer that has spread.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer-chemotherapy/index.html

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My thoughts and prayers go out to her.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Be well Justice Ginsberg!!

[LakeArenal]

2. Hold on Ruth.... we love and need you

My hero. 🤞🏼🙏🏻🇺🇸

[renate]

3. a profile in courage

What a magnificent human being she is.

[elleng]

8. TRULY!

[usaf-vet]

4. Please God take care of this women. Until a new President fills her seat.

Then give her many more years to enjoy her retirement.

[milestogo]

9. +1000

[Mike 03]

5. ...

[BumRushDaShow]

6. She is a tough lady on a mission

Wishing her all my hopes and healing thoughts so she has the strength to keep on keeping on.

[calimary]

7. HANG ON, RUTHIE! RUTHIE, HANG ON!!!

Sung to the tune of "Hang On, Sloopy."

[Tech]

10. She is a warrior in all ways.

[James48]

11. Prayers for RBG

[still_one]

12. Please get well Justice Ginsberg. I have NOTHING BUT DISDAIN for Susan Sarandon,

David Sirota, Briahna Joy Gray, Cornel West, Jill Stein, and all the other so-called "progressives", who not only refused to vote for Hillary in the 2016 general election, but also encouraged others to do likewise

From my perspective they have blood on their hands

I believe the SC starts in October, and there is no doubt that they will do anything to try and get another SC appointment in before the election

[Grins]

32. Yeah, well, but there is this "Biden rule"....

The rule Republicans love... Especially the Senate Majority Leader.

[still_one]

35. Good point Grins, but McConnel will not honor it, and I think you realize that.

We need to have a contingency if the unthinkable happens, and I don’t know what that would be

If we get both houses of Congress, and the WH, make Washington DC a state, get rid of the filibuster

[Desert grandma]

33. If she is still sick in October

She should take FMLA for 12 weeks. In January a new Senate is seated, and if we take the Senate, the Liar in Chief can do nothing after January 1.

[still_one]

34. Thanks. I worry about the lame duck also

[George II]

36. She said in her statement that she's not going anywhere, thankfully. Let's pray that is true....

...at least until October or November, or for years to come!

[still_one]

38. I hear you George, and I sure don't want to project pessimism, but we are literally hanging by a

thread

[NurseJackie]

37. I completely agree! I'll bet you've pissed-off a lot of Stein voters who lurk in the shadows...

From my perspective they have blood on their hands

I completely agree! I'll bet you've pissed-off a lot of Stein voters who lurk in the shadows... and who hope you'll forget... and who don't like to be called out. The Stein-voters (or those who chose to write-in names that have zero chance of winning) are beneath contempt.

[still_one]

39. Yes. Wishing the best for RBG

[Gothmog]

41. I am also praying for RBJ

[Gothmog]

40. The Courts and the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016

I agree with you about Sarandon, Jill Stein and Brie Brie. A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for trump and a vote to give trump control of the courts

[GeorgiaPeanut]

45. Yes - the Stein voters do have blood on their hands

All the blood of Covid 19 deaths plus the guilt and shame of children in cages, putting DACA kids in a limbo, the Charlottesville fiasco, the uptick in racism, the crashing economy and more.

Fuck Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon and anyone who was disgruntled enough that their messiah didn't win and voted third party or didn't vote for HRC.

Own it if you have any integrity whatsoever. Don't hide behind a false "I voted for Hillary" cloak which many people see is not veracious.

[sarge43]

13. Be well, ma'am. You are a light in the darkness.

[hamsterjill]

14. This seems appropriate to me:

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.


She is the GOAT!!!!

[iluvtennis]

15. Sent up a prayer for the Notorious RBG. nt

[still_one]

16. +++

[Polybius]

17. If God forbid she is going through too much pain, she may just retire

As much as it would suck, I would not hold it against her.

[Traildogbob]

21. I agree

She has given her all. And Mitch will not allow a new appointee this close to the election, let the people decide, Right MR. Obama?
RBG needs rest and relief From the hell this country is going through. She fought for us her whole life, we did not have time to go vote to help her. We deserve where we are and should not let saving this country rest solely on her shoulders. She has been a warrior, now it is our time to get off our asses in her honor and take it to the battlefield. Do not let her lifelong battle be wasted. Draw from her fierce courage and honor, or end under criminal soulless greed of GOP and conservatism.
This Veteran stands to honor her, her bravery, and salute the fight she has made for what we all fight for in uniform. Wish her love, peace and health.

[BadgerMom]

18. Thank you for your courage, Justice Ginsburg.

Portland and this news have me shaking. I think I need to stay away from news and the internet today.

[flibbitygiblets]

23. You and me both BadgerMom.

[PlanetBev]

19. In this miserable, rotten year

Nothing surprises me. I hope she can hang on and be with us until next year.

[Bigredhunk]

20. Hang Tough RBG

This great woman is such a badass! Here's hoping for a speedy recovery

[tiredtoo]

22. Personally, gave up praying for anything years ago

But thoughts and heart beats for her health and well being.

[truthisfreedom]

24. She knows exactly what the stakes are and she will apply her will ferociously.

You have so much love behind you, notorious RBG.

[Native]

25. She is a beast!

I'm just gobsmacked by everything about her.

[Lulu KC]

26. Lighting the candles

It can't hurt.

[sinkingfeeling]

27. Oh, crap! Why do bad things seem to only happen to good people?

Hang in there, wonderful lady.

[Desert grandma]

28. She is an amazing lady

Prayers for your recovery Justice Ginsburg! This is a terrible cancer.

[LittleGirl]

29. What an amazing woman.

We are better because of her!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

30. If it spread to her liver, does that mean stage 4?

Stage 4 pancreatic cancer means the cancer has spread to other organs, typically the liver or the lungs. Cancer can’t be cured at this point, but there are still treatment options.

Treatment during this stage is focused on extending life and improving the quality of life.

https://www.healthline.com/health/pancreatic-cancer/stage-4

[wprice2]

31. ATTENTION TO ALL THOSE WHO SAID or THINK RBG SHOULD HAD RETIRED UNDER OBAMA!

I don't blame her one bit!
Who do I blame?
We -the Democratic party and so called Democrats! Cue Will rogers quote!
IF we would have seen the obvious that a madman was about to become President who really showed his idiocy for about two years in 2015-16 and
IF we would have all came together to go against this madman instead of being
1. principled Jill Stein progressive wannabes
2. Bernie or Busters!
3. Couldn't support Hillary and Clinton corruption or at least what Republicans convinced Dems of
and IF
us DUMBocrats would have understood that elections have consequences and Trump maybe able to appoint extremely conservative Supreme, district, and circuit court judges
THEN
a democratic Hillary would have kept one of the few progressive far left voices on the Supreme Court until she felt she could not AND
THEN
"corrupt" "moderate" "non-progressive" Hillary could had nominated a moderate to left Judge that would protect voting rights, abortion, rights, the environment etc etc etc.
I PRAY FOR YOU RBG AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING THE BRAVE, COURAGEOUS WARRIOR YOU TRULY ARE FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS WHO UNDERSTANDS ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!

[Gothmog]

44. Control of the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016

A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for trump and a vote for MoscowMitch to pack the courts

[Wawannabe]

42. She really is BAD ASS!!

You go RBG! Damn she's tuff!

[DonCoquixote]

43. you know the jackals cannto wait for her to die

So that trump could finallly put someone who makes Tony Scalia look like Ruth. He knows that would be red meat for the Fundies.