Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to the bench after undergoing cancer surgery

By Melissa Quinn

Published February 19, 2019 2:37pm ET

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to the bench after undergoing cancer surgery — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits onstage as the third speaker of the David Berg Distinguished Speakers Series, during an event organized by the Museum of the City of New York with WNET-TV held at the New York Academy of Medicine Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, in New York. NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg led a question-and-answer session about Ginsburg's quarter century on the Supreme Court, and about her life. | (Rebecca Gibian/AP)

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be back on the bench for oral arguments Tuesday, marking the first time she will hear cases since undergoing lung cancer surgery in December.

Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Ginsburg is expected to be in attendance to hear arguments in one case before the justices. The Supreme Court returned for its February sitting on Tuesday after a four-week recess.

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