Chief Justice Has Mysterious Seizure
Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized Monday (and released Tuesday) after experiencing a seizure, his second. Doctors were unable to find a cause in either case, leading one neurologist unrelated to the episode to observe: “Having two seizures so many years apart without any known culprit is going to be very difficult to figure out.”
Wait, before you go…AP:
Chief Justice John Roberts is spending part of his summer vacation in a hospital bed after suffering a seizure in Maine.
Roberts, 52, had a similar, unexplained episode in 1993.
Doctors who evaluated the chief justice on Monday said the incident was a “benign idiopathic seizure,” meaning they found no tumor, stroke or other explanation. The seizure caused Roberts to fall on a dock and he sustained minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.
[Roberts was released from the hospital on Tuesday.]
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