Cracked ribs fail to slow Justice Ginsburg

By: KIMBERLY ATKINS, BridgeTower Media Newswires//August 14, 2012//

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t let a couple of cracked ribs break her stride as the U.S. Supreme Court finished one of its biggest terms in recent history.

Ginsburg told Reuters’ Joan Biskupic that she felt pain after falling in her home on June 4. The justice, who said she feels in “great” health and works out regularly with a trainer, went to work as usual, saying she “thought it was nothing.” She added that it was “the worst possible time” to suffer an injury, since the Court was wrapping up the term and still had the health care ruling, the ruling on Arizona’s immigration law and other opinions in the hopper.

But after being examined, she discovered she had two broken ribs. That still didn’t stop her – she “followed her schedule as usual,” Court spokesperson Kathy Arberg told Biskupic. “She indeed did not skip a beat and did not feel it rose to a serious health concern.”

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