Justice Clarence Thomas Hospitalized With Flulike Symptoms, Court Says

Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Supreme Court docket, was hospitalized with an an infection on Friday after experiencing flulike signs, the court docket mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.

Justice Thomas was being handled with intravenous antibiotics at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, the assertion mentioned. Additional particulars about his sickness have been unavailable.

“His signs are abating, he’s resting comfortably, and he expects to be launched from the hospital in a day or two,” the assertion mentioned, including that he would take part within the “consideration and dialogue of any circumstances” that he can not bodily be current for “on the idea of the briefs, transcripts, and audio of the oral arguments.”

Justice Thomas, 73, was nominated by President George H.W. Bush and was seated on Oct. 23, 1991, making him the court docket’s most senior conservative member.

He and the eight different Supreme Court docket justices have been vaccinated and boosted towards Covid-19, The Related Press reported.

At the least two justices, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett M. Kavanaugh, have beforehand contracted the virus.

The Supreme Court docket reconvenes on Monday, in response to the court docket’s calendar.