Ruth Bader Ginsburg skips the state of the Union

S Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice, was clearly absent from President Trump's state of the union address on Tuesday.

Ginsburg, who turns 86 next month, has been working from her home in recent weeks while she was recovering from a cancer treatment.

Her son said this week that she was walking around and seeing a personal trainer twice a week. She appeared in public Monday for the first time since her recent operation, when she attended a concert at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. Her daughter-in-law participated in a show about her own life called Notorious RBG in Song. "

When the pleadings disappeared in January for the first time in a quarter of a century before the Supreme Court, the Liberal Justice announced that it could withdraw and give Trump a third opportunity to appoint a justice at the hearing.

This possibility may have been considered by some Conservatives at the beginning of Trump's second speech on the State of the Union and the third general speech to a joint session of Congress, many wishing the President to choose another choice. at the Supreme Court. "No Ginsburg sighting," tweeted Matt Schlapp, conservative lobbyist and Trump ally.

Ginsburg was not the only one missing from the Supreme Court in the House on Tuesday night. Only Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Judges Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were present to represent the High Court. Judges Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Stephen Breyer all remained on the sidelines.

Before Trump was elected, Ginsburg was jokingly asserting that she could move to New Zealand when he won the 2016 elections. "I can not imagine what this place would be – I can not not imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as president, "she said. "For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be – I do not even want to consider that. "

Named by a Democrat, former President Bill Clinton, in 1993, she never went to the state of the Union as long as she was Republican – George W. Bush or Trump – was in office

It is not unusual for judges to be unaware of the state of the Union, even if others do not have a partisan attendance record to compare with Ginsburg, Alito has not appeared since 2010, and Thomas has not been here since 2009. Both have been nominated by the Republican Presidents, and Judge John Paul Stevens, who retired in 2010, has not never appeared before a court in 35 years.