Supreme Court Associate Judge Clarence Thomas was discharged Friday after a week in hospital, according to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court’s public information officer said Thomas was discharged from the hospital on Friday earlier, without giving further details. Thomas was he was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on March 18 with an infection after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” a court spokesman said at the time. On Sunday, when Thomas’s hospitalization was made public, the spokesman said he did not have COVID-19.
The court had initially said the 73-year-old judge was expected to be released from hospital “in a day or two”. The court did not say why he remained in the hospital for a slightly longer period.
He was hospitalized when Bob Costa of CBS News and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post reported that Thomas’s wife, Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue tireless efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the criticism weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages.
Thomas, considered a Conservative member of the court wing, was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George HW Bush in 1991 and was sworn in later that year.
– Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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