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As the head of the Federal Judiciary and spokesperson of the US Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts needs to provide evidence that the members of his Court are of sufficient health and mental competency to fulfill their constitutional duties on the bench.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is 85 years old and has had some recent health issues. Recently, she has fractured three ribs and had half her left lung removed as a result of two cancerous nodules that were found. That is a huge surgery for someone of any age, much less someone that is 85 years old. Justice Ginsburg has not been seen in public since December 6, 2018.

In order to protect the integrity of the highest court in the land, the American public has a right to know the following:

⁃ Justice Ginsburg is alive

⁃ Justice Ginsburg is physically and mentally competent to perform the constitutional duties required of a Supreme Court Justice

The public has been told that Ginsburg is working from home as she recovers from her medical procedures. Yet, the public has not seen her nor have we heard her voice since undergoing surgery. Furthermore, the public has no way of validating that she has written any of her opinions or is the person voting on cases since undergoing surgery.

I refer you to the story of President Woodrow Wilson as an example in American history where the public was mislead. After suffering a massive stroke in 1919, the public was told that President Wilson was too weak and fragile to make public appearances or participate in meetings. As such, his wife would bring him the issues of the day and then return to the meetings with “his” answers and directions. As the public later found out, she was much more than a personal secretary for her husband. She was in fact, acting as the President of the United States for the greater part of one and half years despite not receiving a single vote in the presidential election of 1916. If something like this can occur at the highest level of the executive branch, it is certainly possible for it to occur at the highest levels of the judicial branch.

It is my sincere hope that Chief Justice John Roberts will provide the public with video evidence that proves that Justice Ginsburg is recovering (has recovered) from her surgery and is of sufficient health to continue serving the American people on the Nation’s highest court.