The Supreme Court announced Sunday that Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized since Friday evening “after experiencing flu-like symptoms.”
to their press release. The longest-serving member of the high court “was diagnosed with an infection, and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics,” the statement said, providing minimal details other than that “his symptoms are abating, he is resting comfortably, and he expects to be released from the hospital in a day or two.” A spokesperson for the Supreme Courtto CNN that Thomas’s illness is “not COVID related” and “the Justice does not have COVID.
SCOTUS justices will hear oral arguments on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week. Thomas, the court’s most senior conservative—and, at 73, its second oldest—“will participate in the consideration and discussion of any cases for which he is not present on the basis of the briefs, transcripts, and audio of the oral arguments,” the Supreme Court’s statement said. He will not participate remotely in oral arguments over the phone on Monday, the Supreme Court spokesperson told CNN.
The court “offered no explanation for why it waited two days to disclose that the justice was in the hospital,” the Associated Press —an opaqueness that SCOTUS experts say is characteristic when it comes to reports on justices’ health. “The court’s Public Information Office is not known for timely release of medical details,” Slate’sin an email. The court’s veiled approach to health updates, which are left to the discretion of the individual justice, has been “a big problem for the press and the public,” she noted.
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Justice Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court saysJustice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized because of an infection, the Supreme Court said Sunday. Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” the court said in a statement.
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Justice Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court saysSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection since Friday, after experiencing 'flu-like symptoms.'
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Justice Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court saysThe Supreme Court says Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized because of an infection.
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