Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized with an infection on Friday after experiencing flu-like symptoms and today he was finally released from the hospital after recovering.
Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe said that Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening. He was diagnosed with an infection after undergoing tests and was being treated with intravenous antibiotics.
The good news for the longtime conservative Supreme Court jurist was that his conditions were improving and he was expected to be released from the hospital Monday or Tuesday. That happened today and the court did not say why he remained in the hospital longer than initially thought or what kind of infection he was treated for while there. The court did confirm Thomas did not have COVID.
In its Sunday statement, the court said, “He underwent tests, was diagnosed with an infection and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics.” At the time, the court said Thomas’ symptoms were “abating, he is resting comfortably and he expects to be released from the hospital in a day or two.”
The high court reconvened this week to hear more cases and Thomas did not participate in oral arguments in person but will still vote on the matters after reviewing all the documents and transcripts of the arguments.
The biggest case the Supreme Court is expected to hand down soon, which it has already heard, is the Dobbs case involving a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi that could either give states more latitude to protect babies from abortions or will overturn Roe entirely, allowing wholesale abortions bans protecting hundreds of thousands of babies annually.
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During the high court’s consideration of Dobbs, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart told the justices on the nation’s highest court that it’s time to overturn Roe v. Wade so states that provide legal protections for unborn children.
“Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey haunt our country,” Stewart told the Supreme Court as it opened hearings on the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“They have no basis in the Constitution. They have no home in our history or traditions. They’ve damaged the democratic process. They’ve poisoned the law. They’ve choked off compromise. For fifty years they’ve kept this Court at the center of a political battle that it can never resolve. And fifty years on, they stand alone: nowhere else does this Court recognize a right to end a human life,” he said.
For decades, under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, states have been prohibited from banning abortions before viability. As a result, about 63 million unborn babies and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mothers have died in supposedly “safe,” legal abortions. Now the Supreme Court has agreed to re-consider this precedent and decide “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortion are unconstitutional.”
Thomas is expected to vote to overturn Roe, as he has previously said the decision is afoul of the Constitution.
