Ginsburg treated for possible infection
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being treated for a possible infection and was expected to stay in the hospital for a few days following a medical procedure, the Supreme Court said in a statement Tuesday.
The court said that the 87-year-old Ginsburg went to a hospital in Washington on Monday evening after experiencing fever and chills. She then underwent a procedure at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August when she was treated for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas.
The statement said the justice “is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.”
Ginsburg spent a night in the hospital in May with an infection caused by a gallstone. While in the hospital, she participated in arguments the court heard by telephone because of the pandemic.
WASHINGTON —
The Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by Atlanta police last month was torn down on Tuesday. Construction crews used an excavator to demolish the charred remains of the University Avenue restaurant. It is not clear who ordered Tuesday’s demolition, which comes a little more than a week after demonstrators who had camped out at the site following Brooks’ death were forced off the property. The Wendy’s became ground zero for protests after Brooks was shot in the parking lot following an attempted DUI arrest in the drive-thru line June 12.