Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was seen leaning on a U.S. Marshall after leaving a New York City hospital for tests, DailyMail.com exclusive photos show.
The 86-year-old’s hand was held by the Marshall as she walked up the stairs into a private residence on the Upper East Side after her appointment at the Howard Laboratory at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital on Thursday.
Ginsburg is a three-time cancer survivor, beating colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and, most recently, lung cancer in 2018.
Ginsburg is the oldest sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice and said it is her ‘dream’ to be on the Supreme Court for as long as former Justice John Paul Stevens, who served for 35 years. Ginsburg has served for 26 years so far.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was seen leaning on a U.S. Marshall after she visited a New York City hospital for tests, DailyMail.com exclusive photos show
The 86-year-old’s hand was held by a Marshall as she walked up a set of stairs after leaving the Howard Laboratory at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital on the Upper East Side on Thursday
One U.S. Marshall helped her up the steps while another carried her purple backpack
On Thursday, Ginsburg was seen exiting an SUV wearing a black shawl over a polka-dotted shirt and white trousers that were paired with matching white mules.
Ginsburg is a three-time cancer survivor, beating colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and, most recently, lung cancer in 2018
She completed the look with black teardrop earrings.
One U.S. Marshall helped her up the steps while another carried her purple backpack.
After her appointment, she was dropped off at a private residence on the Upper East Side.
Last month Ginsburg dismissed concerns regarding her health in an interview with NPR, sneering at a late senator who claimed she would be dead soon after her pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2009.
‘There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced, with great glee, that I was going to be dead within six months,’ she recalled.
‘That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead,’ Ginsburg and the interviewer laughed, ‘and I am very much alive.’
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers, and only has a 20 percent survival rate in the first year after diagnosis and 7 percent five-year survival rate.
On Thursday, Ginsburg was seen exiting an SUV wearing a black shawl over a polka-dotted shirt, white trousers paired with matching white mule heels. She completed the look with black teardrop earrings
Last month Ginsburg dismissed concerns regarding her health in an interview with NPR, sneering at a late senator who claimed she would be dead soon after her pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2009
After her appointment, she was dropped off at a private residence on the Upper East Side
Although Ginsburg could not remember the name of the senator that wished her dead, it appears she is talking about the former Senator to Kentucky Jim Bunning.
In February of 2009, the same year Ginsburg was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Bunning suggested during the Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner in Kentucky that Ginsburg would be replaced soon.
He said Ginsburg had ‘bad cancer. The kind you don’t get better from.’
‘Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live,’ Bunning said at the time.
The Lincoln Day Dinner was on a Saturday, and Ginsburg was back at work that Monday.
In 2017, seven years after retiring from the Senate, Bunning suffered a stroke and died at the age of 85 – one year younger than Ginsburg is now.
Ginsburg is the oldest sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice and said it is her ‘dream’ to be on the Supreme Court for as long as former Justice John Paul Stevens, who served for 35 years. Ginsburg has served for 26 years so far
Ginsburg told NPR that every time she’s had cancer, it was her work on the Supreme Court that ‘saved’ her
When diagnosed with lung cancer last year, and undergoing surgery to remove the cancerous tumors, there were rumors that President Donald Trump could receive his third opportunity to influence the makeup of the Supreme Court
When diagnosed with lung cancer last year, and undergoing surgery to remove the cancerous tumors, there were rumors that President Donald Trump could receive his third opportunity to influence the makeup of the Supreme Court.
Right when taking office he nominated Neil Gorsuch to take the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, and in 2018 nominated Bret Kavanaugh after then-Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he was retiring from the high court.
Ginsburg told NPR that every time she’s had cancer, it was her work on the Supreme Court that ‘saved’ her.
‘I had to concentrate on reading the briefs, doing a draft of an opinion, and I knew it had to get done,’ she said. ‘So I had to get past whatever my aches and pains were just to do the job.’