Not even the coronavirus pandemic can keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg from the bench — the one at her gym that is.
The 87-year-old Supreme Court justice is continuing with her workout routine, even as many gyms across the country have been shuttered to curb the outbreak, her personal trainer said.
“Everybody’s been shut down. The only reason why I didn’t shut the justice down is because, hey, she ain’t having it,” Bryant Johnson, told Law360 on Tuesday.
“She has that grandfather status to me and if she wants to train, that’s the least that I can do,” Johnson added.
The four-time cancer survivor works out twice a week at the justices’ private gym inside the Supreme Court building.
Her routine consists of planks, pushups and other exercises.
“She doesn’t make excuses not to do it, so we find ways to do it,” Johnson said.
To keep the liberal icon safe from germs, Johnson makes sure to wipe down every piece of equipment she will be using during her routine, then washes his hands.
“All I have to do is set it up and she just automatically knows exactly what I want to do,” he said. “It doesn’t require me to grab her, hold her, get up close and personal.”
The High Court closed to the public weeks ago, and indefinitely postponed two weeks of March oral arguments — for the first time since the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak.
For cases that have already been heard, the justices can continue to deliberate and release opinions remotely.
With Post wires