Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg home and 'doing well' after being hospitalized with fever

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was home and "doing well" after being hospitalized with a fever, a court spokeswoman said Sunday.

The four-time cancer survivor was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Friday night to treat a possible infection after going to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington earlier in the day with chills and a high temperature.

Her condition improved after she was treated with intravenous antibiotics and fluids, the court's press office said Saturday night.

Ginsburg, 86, has said she will stay on the bench "as long as I'm healthy and mentally agile" and in 2018 said she hoped to be on the court another five years.

If Ginsburg wishes to see her seat filled by another liberal justice she will have to stay on the bench at least another 14 months and hope a Democrat defeats President Donald Trump in 2020.

This year, she had to miss oral arguments for the first time due to health problems, one of them earlier this month when she was sidelined by a stomach illness.

The leader of the court's liberal minority also missed two weeks of oral arguments in January following surgery for lung cancer, marking the first time in her 26-year Supreme Court career she had been absent. Then in August, she underwent three weeks of radiation for pancreatic cancer.

Her first battle with cancer was in 1999, that time in her colon. In 2009, she faced pancreatic cancer, which has a five-year survival rate of just 9.3%, according to the National Cancer Institute.

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