No, but word is that her cancer is back. Sotomayor’s also not well controlled. Stephen Breyer is showing signs of wear and tear.
Let’s all pray that the Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch soon and that the Demoncraps lose all of their Senators from blue states in the 2018 midterm elections giving Trump a filibuster-proof Senate. Then the Notorious RGB and the other two loofas can feel free to go on their retreats.
“Word?” Are you in DC, or do you have a source?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/05/sweet_justice.html
MAY 29 2009
Sonia Sotomayor, the 54-year-old federal judge currently serving on the 2nd Circuit, is poised to become the nation’s first Latina on the Supreme Court—and also the first justice with Type 1 diabetes. Her medical condition has sparked a debate over her suitability to serve on the high court. While Sotomayor’s diabetes is unlikely to affect her work in the near future, the potential for a catastrophic complication—by no means unique to her situation—highlights a serious deficiency in the nation’s oversight of Supreme Court justices.
The 50-year Harvard-based Medalist study also concluded that patients like Sotomayor “live without severe complications for an extreme duration of the disease.” As a result, Sotomayor’s health prospects are unlikely to be more concerning, for example, than those of Chief Justice John Roberts (who suffered a generalized seizure recently), Ruth Bader Ginsberg (who has battled two cancers), or Clarence Thomas (who is overweight). But, of course, there are no guarantees she’ll stay healthy. Though improbable, she (or another justice) could have a stroke, heart attack, or damage to blood vessels to the eyes, causing blindness.
in 1974, when Justice William O. Douglas had a stroke. In a 2000 article titled “Mental Decrepitude on the U.S. Supreme Court,” David Garrow reviewed 15 similar cases of justices who continued to serve on the high court while demented, addicted to drugs, or otherwise mentally incapacitated. Most recently, in 2004 Susan Okie argued in the New England Journal of Medicine that then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist was less-than-forthcoming about his deadly thyroid cancer, which may have compromised his judicial abilities.
The fundamental problem is that the Supreme Court is entirely self-governing, unlike any other governmental body. The president is subject to the 25th Amendment, which provides a clear procedure to remove him from office should he become unable to “discharge the powers and duties” assigned. Since 1980, federal judges must answer to complaints charging them with being too ill to make decisions—but the Supreme Court is immune from that law.
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Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
By ADAM LIPTAKFEB. 5, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/washington/06ginsburg.html
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Thursday for what was apparently early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a statement released by the Supreme Court.
The surgery followed the discovery of a lesion during an annual checkup in late January at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. A scan revealed a small tumor, approximately one centimeter across, in the center of the pancreas, the court’s statement said.
Justice Ginsburg was treated for colon cancer in 1999.
Trump will have a GOP Senate for at least four years. The Senate map for 2018 makes it downright impossible for Dems to take over.