Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted before having surgery to remove two malignant nodules to deny a request from the Trump administration to enforce its new asylum policy, according to a report.
Ginsburg, 85, had surgery Friday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to remove the nodules found in her left lung.
Prior to undergoing the procedure, Ginsburg voted against the Trump administration to reject its bid to allow enforcement of the asylum policy, which effectively prohibits asylum for migrants who illegally cross the southern border, according to NBC News.
Clarification: Pete Williams misspoke. Did not mean to suggest she literally voted from her hospital bed. Only that she voted before the surgery, knowing what was coming for her. https://t.co/32funDPtEd
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) December 21, 2018
Chief Justice John Roberts joined Ginsburg and the court’s liberal wing in denying the request from the Justice Department.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh said they would have halted a lower court ruling that stopped the administration from moving forward with the asylum policy.
The nodules were discovered in November after Ginsburg suffered a fall in her office at the Supreme Court and fractured three ribs.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said that Ginsburg is “resting comfortably” following the procedure. There is “no evidence of any remaining disease,” Ginsbug’s thoracic surgeon, Valerie Rusch, said in a statement distributed by the Supreme Court.
There was “no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” according to the high court.
