Justice Ginsburg Returns to Work

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Less Than 3 Weeks After Cancer Surgery, She Is an Active Participant on the Bench

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 24, 2009; Page A02

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court bench yesterday with a wide smile and a long list of questions for the lawyers appearing before her, resuming her duties less than three weeks after surgery for pancreatic cancer.

Ginsburg, who will turn 76 next month, smiled broadly as she walked into the courtroom with her eight male colleagues and turned slightly to look directly at reporters who chronicled her Feb. 5 surgery and diagnosis of early-stage cancer.

She was a vigorous participant in yesterday's two oral arguments, and even teased veteran Supreme Court practitioner Carter Phillips about whether an opinion she wrote in 2003 had misstated the justices' intentions.

"Do you think that was just carelessness on the court's part?" Ginsburg asked.

more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302543.html?hpid=moreheadlines

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So Bunning can go to hell.

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1. Uh oh, look out, Jim Bunning!

I'd still put a fiver on Ruth in a street fight with the former pitcher.

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2. Yeah, I meant Bunning

Can't keep my right-wing senators straight today.