Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

Yahoo News / AP ^ | July 30, 2007 | By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

[EagleUSA]

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.

"It's my understanding he's fully recovered, said Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where Roberts was taken.

Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the medical center, where he underwent a "thorough neurological evaluation, which revealed no cause for concern," Arberg said in a statement.

Roberts had a similar episode in 1993, she said.

Doctors called Monday's incident "a benign idiopathic seizure," Arberg said. The White House described the January 1993 episode as an "isolated, idiosyncratic seizure."

A benign seizure means that doctors performed an MRI and other tests to conclude there was no tumor, stroke or other explanation.

In addition, doctors would have quickly ruled out simple explanations such as dehydration or low blood sugar.

[EagleUSA]

Oh, God, no. This man is one of the few threads holding this Constitutional Republic together....

[oyez]

I hear he will be OK. The folks over at DU are now having seizures.

[Izzy Dunne]

I don't know where his home is, but Pen Bay Med Center is 20 minutes from my house.

And if you were outside around lunchtime today, you were quite hot and humid.

[knarf]

Can I conclude, then, that this is some kind of fainting spell and not a seizure?

Seizure just sounds like it should have more of a neurological trail.

Is there a doctor in this house?

[Stallone]

It's a wonder he's even alive.

Imagine yourself working beside THIS everyday!

He deserves a goddamn medal.