Justice Clarence Thomas Discharged From Hospital, Court Says

Justice Clarence Thomas, who had been hospitalized for the previous week, was discharged Friday morning, the Supreme Courtroom mentioned.

After experiencing flulike signs, Justice Thomas, the longest-serving member of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington final Friday, the courtroom mentioned in an announcement on Sunday. A press release on Friday supplied no additional particulars.

He underwent assessments and was informed he had an an infection on the time. He was handled with intravenous antibiotics.

Patricia McCabe, a spokeswoman for the Supreme Courtroom, mentioned earlier this week that Justice Thomas’s sickness was not Covid-19 or associated to the coronavirus. All 9 Supreme Courtroom justices have been vaccinated and boosted in opposition to Covid-19. At the least two justices, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett M. Kavanaugh, have beforehand contracted the virus. Justices are recurrently examined for the virus, in accordance with courtroom protocol.

Justice Thomas, 73, was nominated by President George H.W. Bush and was seated on Oct. 23, 1991, making him the courtroom’s most senior conservative member. He’s its second-oldest member, after Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 83, who in January introduced his retirement.