Justice Ginsburg Treated in Hospital for Possible Infection

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Constitution Center Americas Town Hall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, on Dec. 17, 2019. AP Photo/Steve Helber

WASHINGTON—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.