Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for tumor
on her pancreas: court spokesman
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Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/23/2019 2:53:36 PM
Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for tumor on her pancreas: court spokesman
Justice Ginsburg has 'tolerated treatment well' and tumor was 'treated definitively' - court spokesman. This is a breaking news story.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/23/2019 3:00:30 PM (No. 160211)
She will never retire no matter what. There is no way she will be the one who let's Trump name another Supreme Court Justice. They will have to carry her out and I don't doubt that is exactly what will happen.
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This is beyond a joke now. One party - nay, one person - is holding the US government to ransom.
She is obviously physically unfit. She is almost certainly mentally unfit. She obviously has trouble remaining awake during normal waking hours.
The latest of late-breaking outpourings of love (actually, nothing more than cynical partisan cheering and jeering from cynical partisans) and that ridiculous hagiographical film have obviously appealed to the old fool's vanity and she refuses to yield a seat that can and should go to someone capable of discharging its responsibilities.
God knows what her family must think as they watch Ruth hang on even in her literal dying days. The court resumes sessions in October and it's probably even odds that she is able to participate. The concessions that were proposed ie she can hear cases remotely etc. are as ludicrous as they are skewed ie a conservative would never be offered such accommodation.
From a strategic standpoint, she's already effectively out of the frame. Her 'dissent collar' is getting quite the workout as she and her bloc-voting cronies continue to lose cases. They are unthinking partisans who rely on hypotheticals and candyfloss. They believe we are a government with a nation attached not the other way round and their legal opinions reflect this disturbing view. But the witches' coven is on a sustained slide. Ironically for her and them, Ginsburg stepping down really wouldn't change the outcome of most cases. BUT, to quote the cretin Peter Strzok, you can never have too much insurance. Another Trump-appointed justice would cement his legacy, bolster the majority on the court, leave some room for Clarence Thomas to depart when relatively healthy and enjoy his own retirement and keep any shock results at bay when one of the 'conservatives' has a bad case of Potomac Fever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bassman 8/23/2019 3:15:09 PM (No. 160227)
It'll be a long "Weekend at Ruthie's" before she ever leaves the bench.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
grayjay 8/23/2019 3:16:03 PM (No. 160228)
After all of her episodes, the hospitals say the treatment went well and no further treatment is necessary. Until next time. It is pathetic to see this 86 year old woman, very feeble, and who has courageously fought all her prior cancers, determined to hang in there solely to prevent a conservative to replace her.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/23/2019 3:20:41 PM (No. 160232)
She is now resting comfortably in a temperature and humidity controlled vault in the basement of the Supreme Court Building. Her medical staff only allow her out at night. She should be able to go on for centuries like this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 8/23/2019 3:22:34 PM (No. 160235)
The old girl passed last year, but until she actually falls over she'll remain on the payroll.
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Didn't they say previously that she didn't have any other cancer?
If a member of Congress is in the hospital, or sick at home, and not able to make it to the chamber for a vote, they aren't allowed to vote "remotely".
So, how is it, she is allowed to hear cases remotely?
Is it possible someone else is actually handling everything for her, as they know how she'll vote anyway?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/23/2019 3:34:47 PM (No. 160241)
I hope he nominates Laura Ingraham to replace her. The time draws nigh.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ben Around 8/23/2019 3:39:32 PM (No. 160248)
She is a democrat woman, don't you know they have special rights #7?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nephilim 8/23/2019 3:40:42 PM (No. 160250)
Have you no dignity Mrs. Ginsburg? It is time to go through hook or hoof.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/23/2019 3:47:20 PM (No. 160260)
It’s not exactly common for anyone to survive pancreatic cancer once, but twice? I give her a couple of weeks at most. She was already frail before going into treatment - just imagine what two weeks of radiation have done to her.
One of my dearest friends, at the age of 84 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and died on March first.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/23/2019 3:51:58 PM (No. 160262)
Wish her well. She and Judge Scalia were good friends even through they were on the other side of the political fence. They shared a passion for opera and often attended together. Have a cousin who is dying from cancer. She was given chemo to shrink her tumor which would then be removed. But the chemo almost killed her so she is just in a nursing home waiting for the inevitable in constant pain. You never know what you are going to get from a Supreme Court justice. Roberts and Kavanaugh are unreliable.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/23/2019 3:52:21 PM (No. 160263)
The good old Biden rule will now suddenly apply for the last year of a first term when heretofore it has only been applied to the guaranteed end of a presidency at the end of a second term. You can bet that the democrats will pitch the fit of their existence if RBG passes in Trump’s first term and he tries to appoint a third justice to the SC. They simply refuse to take the "L" and make the rules up as they go to suit themselves.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 8/23/2019 3:53:07 PM (No. 160265)
I know Ruthie thinks it's hell on earth to be stuck in the minority status at the SC . Someone needs to tell that that even if it is, she won't get a shorter sentence for 'time served' when she finally arrives at her well-deserved destination in Hades.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
49 Ford 8/23/2019 4:04:47 PM (No. 160271)
In something like this none of us should play doctor. or engage in speculation. The government is in Washington, but God reigns.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
P51DMustang 8/23/2019 4:14:01 PM (No. 160277)
Ruth Buzzy is trying to out run the Grim Reaper, not going to happen. In the still of the day when no earthly soul is around, she will meet her end.
In that day the cries of the unborn that she committed to death will fill her chamber and she will scream for final death, but it will not come.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/23/2019 4:20:13 PM (No. 160280)
Thinking more about this, one wonders about how someone so frail can endure just the anesthesia alone? I suppose she's having laparoscopic surgeries and treatments (stents), but hard to imagine maneuvering around in that scrawny, tiny body.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/23/2019 4:33:38 PM (No. 160289)
Judges, even Supreme Court judges, should not get lifetime appointments.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 6:12:25 PM (No. 160371)
I call pancreatic cancer, "gone this year", based on losing the wives of four friends in under 12 months from diagnosis.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 6:12:51 PM (No. 160372)
Oh, and all those women were in their 40s and 50s, not their 80s.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/23/2019 6:52:25 PM (No. 160411)
Thinking about RBG’s radiation treatments made me remember when my mother in law was dying of lung cancer. She was in the hospital and they kept giving her radiation treatments even after it was clear that she was never going to leave there in anything but a hearse. They finally quit when she went into a coma she never awoke from. I wondered at the time why they were doing it - was is to rake in more cash or was it to give her a little more hope as she was dying? Are Ginsburg’s treatments nothing more than a placebo?
I still give her 2 weeks.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
cartcart 8/23/2019 7:27:08 PM (No. 160433)
I cannot wish her any ill will at all. It would be wrong to hope that she passes away just so Trump can put in another outstanding judge. I can, however, wish that she would retire so that Trump can put in another outstanding judge.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/23/2019 7:49:13 PM (No. 160454)
After seeing her publicly so drunk she passed out during the sacred 'One's' SOTU address, is it any surprise she has pancreatic disease?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
glcinpdx 8/23/2019 9:10:40 PM (No. 160491)
Follow the Light, Ruthie ... Just follow the Light...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 8/24/2019 2:31:48 AM (No. 160599)
I don;t think there is light where she is going, #24, other than a dull red glow of the fires.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/24/2019 7:50:26 AM (No. 160725)
The 'Real' tumor is her Leftist Brain!
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