Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized after experiencing chills and fever, the court said Saturday.

In a statement, the court´s public information office said Ginsburg was admitted Friday night to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection.

With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, her symptoms abated and she expected to be released from the hospital as early as Sunday morning, the statement said.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured on October 21, in Berkeley) was hospitalized after experiencing chills and fever, the court said Saturday

Ginsburg, 86, only returned to the bench earlier this week after she suffered what the court described as a stomach bug.

She was absent from arguments on November 13 but returned for the court´s next public meeting, on November 18.

Ginsburg's health is closely watched because another Supreme Court vacancy would give President Donald Trump the opportunity to appoint a third justice to the nine-member court and move it further to the right. The court's 5-4 conservative majority includes two justices named by Trump.

In August, Ginsburg underwent radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer. She had two cancerous nodules in her left lung removed last December, and had previously been treated for pancreatic cancer in 2009 and colon cancer in 1999.

The oldest justice on the court, Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

Ginsburg spent the early part of her career as a professor at the Rutgers University law school in New Jersey and at Columbia University law school. She started the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project in the 1970s. Before the high court, she served as a federal appeals court judge in Washington DC for 13 years.

Ginsburg has been treated for cancer twice in the past ten months. Most recently in August, she announced the was being treated for pancreatic cancer.

In 1999, she successfully underwent surgery to treat colon cancer, before being diagnosed with the early stages of pancreatic cancer a decade later. Ginsburg then underwent surgery in December to remove two cancerous nodules from her left lung.

Ginsburg has been severing on the Supreme Court since 1993 and is the oldest among the nine appointed justices. However, as a four-time cancer survivor her health has long been an concern

Her most recent diagnosis did little to derail her active public speaking schedule though, as she decided to embark on a multi-state tour.

'This latest has been my fourth cancer battle and I found each time that when I'm active, I'm much better than if I'm just lying about and feeling sorry for myself,' she said in September, in New York, at an event hosted by Moment Magazine.

'It's a necessity to get up and go, it's stimulating, and somehow all these appearances that I've had since the end of August whatever my temporary disability is, it stops and I'm OK for the time of the event.'