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CARON CREIGHTON I Associated Press
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery
Friday to remove two malignant growths in her left lung,
the third time she has been treated for cancer since 1999.
Ginsburg has
surgery to remove
cancerous growths
BY MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Jus
tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
had surgery Friday to
remove two malignant
growths in her left lung,
the third time the Supreme
Court’s oldest justice has
been treated for cancer
since 1999.
Doctors found “no evi
dence of any remaining
disease” and scans taken
before the surgery showed
no cancerous growths else
where in her body, the
court said in a statement.
No additional treatment is
currently planned, it said.
The 85-year-old Gins
burg is the leader of the
court’s liberal wing. She
has achieved an iconic sta
tus rare for Supreme Court
justices, and is known as
the Notorious RBG to some
of her most ardent fans.
In recent days, Ginsburg
has basked in the warm
applause of audiences that
turned out for screenings
of a new feature film about
her life.
Her health is closely
watched by liberals and
conservatives alike. If she
were to step down now,
President Donald Trump
would choose her replace
ment, and further shift the
Supreme Court in a more
conservative direction.
The growths were found
incidentally during tests
Ginsburg had after she
fractured ribs in a fall in
her Supreme Court office
on Nov. 7, the court said.
Doctors at Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York per
formed a procedure called
a pulmonary lobectomy
on Ginsburg. The growths
they removed were deter
mined to be malignant in
an initial pathology evalu
ation, the court said, citing
Ginsburg’s thoracic sur
geon, Dr. Valerie W. Rusch.
Ginsburg is expected to
remain in the hospital for
a few days, the court said.
“If she doesn’t need any
thing but the surgery, it is
a very good sign,” said Dr.
John Lazar, director of
thoracic robotic surgery at
MedStar Washington Hos
pital Center.
It’s not uncommon to see
slow-growing lung cancers
in women in their 80s, and
they tend to respond well
to surgery and go on to die
of something unrelated, he
said.
“This is just luck”
the growths were found
through those rib X-rays
because accidentally dis
covered lung tumors tend
to be early-stage when
surgery works best, said
Dr. Giuseppe Giaccone, an
oncologist at Georgetown
University’s Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
While doctors will have
to see the final pathology
report to know exactly
what kind of tumors
Ginsburg had and how
aggressive they were, her
previous bouts with cancer
were so long ago they’re
unlikely to be related,
Giaccone said.
Both doctors said
patients typically spend
three or four days in the
hospital after this type of
operation.
It was unclear whether
Ginsburg would be back
on bench when the court
next meets on Jan. 7. She
has never missed Supreme
Court arguments in more
than 25 years as a justice.
She told an audience
in New York last week at
a screening of the movie
“On the Basis of Sex” that
she was about to resume
her now-famous workout
routine.
House, Senate adjourn
without funding deal
President Trump says partial closure could last ‘for a very long time’
BY USA MASCARO,
MATTHEW DALY
AND ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — White
House negotiators left the
Capitol late Friday, and the
House and Senate adjourned
without a spending deal, all
but ensuring a partial gov
ernment shutdown at mid
night with President Donald
Trump demanding billions of
dollars for his long-promised
Mexican border wall.
Trump’s top envoys were
straining to broker a last-
minute compromise with
Democrats and some of their
own Republican Party’s law
makers. But Vice President
Mike Pence, incoming White
House chief of staff Mick
Mulvaney and senior adviser
Jared Kushner departed
after hours spent dashing
back and forth, with no out
ward signs of an agreement.
The shutdown, scheduled
for midnight, would disrupt
government operations and
leave hundreds of thousands
of federal workers
furloughed or forced
to work without pay
just days before
Christmas. Senators
passed legislation
ensuring workers
receive back pay;
it will be sent to the
House.
At a White House
bill signing, Trump said the
government was “totally
prepared for a very long shut
down,” though hardly anyone
thought a lengthy shutdown
was likely.
The president tried to pin
the blame on Democrats,
even though just last week
he said he would be “proud”
to claim ownership of a shut
down in a fight for the wall.
Campaigning for office two
years ago, he had declared
the wall would go up “so fast
it will make your head spin.”
He also promised Mexico
would pay for it, which Mex
ico has said it will never do.
“This is our only chance
that we’ll ever have, in our
opinion, because of the world
and the way it breaks out, to
get great border security,”
Trump said Friday at the
White House. Democrats will
take control of the House in
January, and they oppose
major funding for wall
construction.
Looking for a way to claim
victory, Trump said he would
accept money for a “Steel
JOSE LUIS MAGANA I Associated Press
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaks with
reporters Friday, Dec. 21, as the Senate takes up a House-passed bill that would pay for
President Donald Trump’s border wall and avert a partial government shutdown.
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on the top, which he said
would be just as effective as a
“wall” and “at the same time
beautiful.”
Congress is planning to
be back in session Saturday,
but no votes were sched
uled. Lawmakers were told
they would be given 24-hour
notice to return to
Washington.
Sen. Richard
Shelby, R-Ala., the
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Appropriations Com
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chances of an accord
by midnight “prob
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a bipartisan package earlier
this week that would continue
existing border security fund
ing, at $1.3 billion, but without
new money for Trump’s wall.
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