What Surgery? Ginsburg Churns Out Opinions in High Court Return

If cancer surgery slowed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg down, she’s hiding it well.

Ginsburg, 85, issued two of the U.S. Supreme Court’s three opinions March 4, including one in a case argued while she was at home recuperating from the Dec. 21 surgery to remove cancerous growths from her left lung.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Since her return to the bench Feb. 19, the court’s most visible liberal has written three of its nine opinions in cases that were argued before the justices.

Ginsburg summarized her opinions from the bench March 4, starting with a 7-2 ruling for the railroad industry in a ...