Listen to Ruth Bader Ginsburg conduct Supreme Court questioning from her hospital room
 
 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has rebounded once again.
The 87-year-old Supreme Court justice was hospitalized Tuesday night with an inflamed gallbladder, just hours after she had participated in the court's livestreamed oral arguments. But by the next morning, she was on the phone again, questioning attorneys in a case regarding birth control coverage and the Affordable Care Act.
The Supreme Court livestreamed its oral arguments for the first time starting Monday as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps even the most longstanding American institutions shut down. On Wednesday, it tackled a case regarding whether employers could use religious or moral justification to refuse to provide contraceptives to employees in their health care plans. Listen to Ginsburg below. Kathryn Krawczyk
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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