Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital and was able to return home yesterday.

A spokeswoman for the high court, Kathy Arberg, said Wednesday morning that the beloved Supreme Court Justice had been released on Christmas Day.

'Justice Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is recuperating at home,' Arberg said in a Wednesday morning statement.

Ginsburg has been recovering from cancer treatment at New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She underwent surgery Friday to remove two malignant growths in her left lung.

Doctors say there is no evidence of any remaining disease.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital and was able to return home yesterday.

The associate justice, 85, had the growths removed after they were discovered by a CT scan when she cracked three ribs in a fall in her office last month.

The court said that there are no remaining signs of cancer in her body after the treatment, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

It meets next on Jan. 7. Despite her health problems, Ginsburg, who has been treated for cancer twice before, has never missed arguments.

In a prior statement from the court, Ginsburg was said to be at the hospital 'recovering comfortably' and would remain there for a few days, before she would be released and allowed to return home.

The statement said that Ginsburg had a 'pulmonary lobectomy' to remove nodules that were found to be malignant.

'According to the thoracic surgeon, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, both nodules removed during surgery were found to be malignant on initial pathology evaluation,' the court statement said.

'Post-surgery there was no evidence of any remaining disease. Scans performed before surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Currently no further treatment is planned.'

Ruth Bader Gisburg has had two cancerous growths removed from her lungs, the Supreme Court said last week. She spoke about her health in New York on Saturday 15 December during a question-and-answer session at the Museum of the City of New York

Current bench: Bader Ginsburg's colleagues on the Supreme Court are from front left: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

The justice fell in her office on November 8, fracturing three ribs. She had been seen since, including at a Washington, D.C. holiday party, and was said to have resumed her regular workouts.

She was treated at George Washington University hospital in Washington D.C., where the tests were carried out that led to Friday's surgery in New York.

Treatment: Thoracic surgeon Valerie W. Rusch has found no evidence of remaining disease after removing two cancers

The survival rate for patients who undergo lobectomies is high, with between 85 to 95 per cent of people treated living five years or more afterward.

It is Bader Ginsburg's third treatment for cancer since she joined the court in 1993.

In 1999 she was successfully treated for colorectal cancer and in 2009 for pancreatic cancer.

Among other health problems, she also broke two ribs in a fall in 2012 and had a stent implanted to open a blocked artery in 2014. She was hospitalized after a bad reaction to medicine in 2009.

Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg is now both the oldest member of the bench and the leader of its four-justice liberal wing.

She rebuffed suggestions from some liberals that she should step down in the first two years of President Barack Obama's second term, when Democrats controlled the Senate and would have been likely to confirm a like-minded successor.

The 85-year-old Brooklyn native was interviewed by NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg last Saturday, speaking of her health and saying she was 'almost repaired'

Movie phenomenon: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to be played by Felicity Jones (center) in On The Basis of Sex, which comes out on Christmas Day. It also stars (from left) Justin Theroux, Mimi Leder, and Armie Hammer, and was directed by Daniel Stiepleman

With the star: Justin Theroux and Armie Hammer both posted pictures with the Supreme Court Justice earlier this month, ahead of a Washington D.C. screening of On The Basis of Sex

She already has hired clerks for the term that extends into 2020, indicating she has no plans to retire.

Ginsburg had spoken of her health in New York earlier this month, saying she was 'almost repaired' from the fall in her office which cracked two ribs.

The 85-year-old Brooklyn native was being interviewed by NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg and said of her health, 'it's fine, thank you,' adding that her ribs are 'almost repaired'.

'And yesterday was my first day doing my whole workout routine,' she said, in a reference to a high-intensity workout which has become famous in its own right.

Her trainer had stopped her from doing upper body work in the aftermath of the fall.

Ginsburg was the second woman to become a member of the Supreme Court, following Justice Sandra Day O´Connor, who retired in 2006. O'Connor, 88, said in October she is suffering from dementia.

Ginsburg called Trump an egotistical 'faker' when he was running for president in 2016. Trump responded by saying her 'mind is shot' and she should quit the court. Ginsburg later expressed regret for her comments, saying 'judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.'

When she fell last month, however, Trump said he was praying for her recovery.

Bader Ginsburg's cultural fame has led to her being nicknamed 'Notorious RBG.' and she is now the subject of an upcoming biopic, On The Basis of Sex, in which she is played by British actress Felicity Jones.

The movie that chronicles the future Supreme Court Justice's rise hit theaters on Christmas Day, just as Ginsburg, who's Jewish, was released from the hospital.