WASHINGTON – Over her 86½ years on earth, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been lauded as a women's rights pioneer, a Supreme Court justice and a cultural icon. These days, she receives hearty ovations just for staying on the job.Fresh off three weeks of radiation treatment for her fourth bout with cancer, the woman fondly known as the"Notorious RBG" is traveling the nation giving speeches, staging conversations and accepting awards and honorary degrees.
If Democrats eventually prevail in confirming a liberal-leaning justice to their liking, Chemerinsky says,"This could be the swing vote down the road." The lone statement issued by the court after her latest bout with pancreatic cancer was upbeat."The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," it said."Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."
Then it was on to the University of Chicago and Georgetown University Law Center the following week, and two appearances in her native New York City this week, where she took on directly the critique that she should have stepped down years ago. The court's 2019 term begins Oct. 7, briefly keeping Ginsburg in the nation's capital, where her latest accolade was a two-story mural unveiled Monday on a downtown D.C. building. When two weeks of oral arguments are completed, she is scheduled to travel cross country to California.
The most deadly cancerBefore her latest cancer was diagnosed, Ginsburg said she hoped to stay on the bench for at least five more years, noting that Associate Justice John Paul Stevens served until age 90. Stevens died in July at 99. The justice's first major health scare was colon cancer in 1999. Chemotherapy and radiation left her depleted, so her late husband Martin convinced her to get a personal trainer. She has worked out twice a week ever since.Her first bout with pancreatic cancer in 2009 was caught early following a routine blood test, and she made a full recovery. She received a stent in a heart procedure in 2014.
Her latest cancer has not slowed Ginsburg down, much to her supporters' chagrin. Fleshman says that may not be a bad thing.
But can she stop mad dog conservatives? No way! Why all this song & dance? All her liberalism good for nothing. She is a lost cause in my opinion. Who is not lost cause? In my opinion boozer Kavanaugh! Even God can't remove him from the bench! God loves the choir boy!