WATCH: Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks publicly for the first time since being treated for pancreatic cancer pic.twitter.com/45QQWwHwtM
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Video above is from today.
Via CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared healthy on Monday during a public appearance at the University at Buffalo, three days after completing a three-week course of radiation therapy in New York to treat a tumor found on her pancreas.
“It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the ‘notorious RBG.’ I am now 86 years old, yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me,” Ginsburg joked during an address at the university. “Amazing.”
The liberal justice’s health has become a matter of public concern because of partisan make-up of the nine-member panel.
With President Donald Trump’s two picks on the bench, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, the court now has a reliable conservative majority including five Republican-appointees.
In the coming years, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on some of the nation’s most divisive issues, such as the power of big business, the Second Amendment, LGBT rights and abortion. If Ginsburg retires while a Republican controls the presidency, conservatives are likely to be able to wield more influence over the direction of the country for years to come.