Chief Justice leaves Maine hospital
on Jul 31, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., left a medical center in Rockport, Maine, at 1l:15 Tuesday morning, and returned to his summer home. An Associated Press online video showed the smiling Roberts walking at a rapid pace out of the Penobscot Bay Medical Center, waving once to onlookers, then getting into a sport utility vehicle.
The Supreme Court public information office said there would be no further information on his recovery from a seizure on Monday afternoon when he fell on a dock near his vacation home close to the village of Port Clyde. Kathleen L. Arberg, the Court’s public information officer, said the Chief Justice would continue with his vacation.
Presidential Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters who cover the White House that President Bush had talked with Roberts by telephone Tuesday morning, and that Roberts had said he was doing fine. Snow added that the Chief Justice “sounded like he was in great spirits.”
