By MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized due to an an infection, the Supreme Court docket stated Sunday.
Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing “flu-like signs,” the court docket stated in a press release.
The court docket provided no clarification for why it waited two days to reveal that the justice was within the hospital.
It additionally supplied no extra particulars concerning the an infection, however stated Thomas is being handled with antibiotics and his signs are abating.
He could possibly be launched within the subsequent couple of days, the court docket stated.
The Supreme Court docket is assembly this week to listen to arguments in 4 instances. Thomas plans to take part within the instances even when he misses the arguments, the court docket stated.
Thomas has been on the court docket since 1991. Information of his hospitalization got here because the Senate Judiciary Committee ready to start hearings Monday within the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, who President Joe Biden named to exchange Stephen Breyer. He’s retiring on the finish of the session.
