Last month Justice Breyer fell off his bike, went to hospital for shoulder replacement surgery

[Tx4obama]

Apparently he was in the hospital for only two days.

04/29/13

Stephen Breyer Released From Hospital After Shoulder Surgery

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been released from a Washington hospital, two days after undergoing surgery for injuries suffered in a bicycle accident.

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said the 74-year-old Breyer will wear a sling for several weeks while he heals from shoulder replacement surgery on his right shoulder.

Breyer fell from his bike on Friday as he was riding near the Lincoln Memorial. Arberg said the justice thinks he may have hit an exposed tree root.

It was the third serious cycling accident for Breyer dating back to 1993, when he punctured a lung and broke ribs after being hit by a car in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. He broke his right collarbone in 2011.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/stephen-breyer-hospital_n_3180728.html

[Warpy]

1. I'm betting he won't give it up, either.

My 89 year old dad was a menace to himself on his bicycle, but there was no way he'd have given it up and if I'd confiscated it, he'd just have bought himself another one.

I suspect Breyer is the same.

My best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Perhaps Scalia would like to take up biking nm

[Tx4obama]

3. I am so ready for there to be a vacancy at the SCOTUS that I can barely stand it !!!

I want to know NOW who President Obama is going to pick for his next appointment

A POLL I posted on DU last month regarding possible nominees, here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251299531

Current Justices/ages, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Current_justices

A list of all the justices back to the 1700s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

[Tx4obama]

4. Pres Kennedy nominated Byron White on Apr 3, 1962, eight days later he was confirmed on Apr 11, 1962

By a 'voice' vote.

WOW!

Something like that will never ever happen again.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm

[Posteritatis]

5. "Shoulder replacement" and "out of hospital in two days" = kinda hardcore. (nt)