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| Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday night and had a stent placed in her right coronary artery Wednesday morning, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said. | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday night and had a stent placed in her right coronary artery Wednesday morning, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said. |
| Ginsburg, 81, the court’s oldest justice, is expected to be released within 48 hours, according to spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg. | Ginsburg, 81, the court’s oldest justice, is expected to be released within 48 hours, according to spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg. |
| The news release from the court said Ginsburg experienced discomfort while exercising. The procedure to relieved the blockage was performed at the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. | The news release from the court said Ginsburg experienced discomfort while exercising. The procedure to relieved the blockage was performed at the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. |
| The operation is sure to revive speculation about whether Ginsburg will consider retiring from the lifetime post to which she was chosen by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Liberal commentators have repeatedly called for Ginsburg to retire so that President Obama can appoint her successor and ensure that the nine-justice court contains at least four liberals. | |
| Ginsburg, who in the past several years has taken a strong role as the senior justice on the court’s left, has dismissed such speculation. She said she will continue to serve as long as she feels she is up to the job. | |
| In an interview earlier in the fall, she questioned whether the Senate would confirm a nominee like her. Since then, Republicans have gained control of the Senate, which must approve the president’s nominee. | |
| “Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have?” Ginsburg said in an interview with Elle magazine. “If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court.” | |
| Still, Ginsburg said her tenure on the court would be dictated by her health and a feeling that she has not slowed down. | |
| There has been no indication of that so far this term: She pulled an all-nighter earlier this term to write a dissent to the court’s decision to allow Texas’s voter-ID law to be used in this fall’s election. It was issued before dawn. | |
| The speculation about Ginsburg has been prompted in part by previous health scares. | |
| She had colon cancer in 1999 and survived pancreatic cancer that was detected in 2009. She embarked upon a rigorous exercise schedule and has served on the bench even with broken ribs. | |
| During her previous illnesses, she did not miss a day of the court’s public schedule, and the court indicated that she intends to be in place Monday when the justices begin their next round of oral arguments. | |
| According to the National Institutes of Health, stents are mesh inserts that about a half-million patients receive each year to open clogged arteries. | |
| Ginsburg is at least the second justice to have such a procedure. Justice Anthony Kennedy had a stent procedure in 2006. |