Order in the Court!

The sole active Female Supreme Court Justice~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg is hospitalized for surgery to remove a tumor on her pancreas. Ginsburg is one of only two female justices to ever serve on the Supreme Court. The other is Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired in 2006.

The only woman on the court, Ginsburg has been a justice since 1993. She is a liberal-leaning justice who has been vocal in recent years about the court’s more neo-con stance.

In 1999, Ginsburg had surgery for colon cancer and had chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The new cancer was discovered during a routine, annual exam late last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers: Nearly 38,000 cases a year are diagnosed and overall, fewer than 5 percent of patients survive five years. Hers was caught early, so it is hopeful she will respond to the treatment. 

Ginsberg is one of the few voices of reason in the Supreme Court. 

I wish her well.

Not to be insensitive, but I do hope the Lady Justices have been paying their taxes! The U.S. population has more than 50% female population, but only 1 of 12 justices on the Supreme court.  If Justice Ginsburg has to step down, I’m sure she held out till the new regime was in place, as did Thurgood Marshall, when he retired after Clinton was president, to be sure a liberal justice would be appointed. 

I will quote DK who posted this brilliant response on my blog:

“As far as who would replace Ginsberg, it really does have to be a woman, but I would not be looking in the politican field. It will most likely be someone we’ve never heard of, who has made their bones in the circuit court or similar justice arena. And no moderate libs either! I want a flamingly unquestionable lib. I want her to be so liberal, she thinks socialism is too right-wing. Gotta balance out the extremism of Scalia and Thomas somehow.”

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