Justice Thomas Hospitalized With Infection, High Court Says

The court offered no explanation for why it waited two days to disclose that the 73-year-old justice was in the hospital.

Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized because of an infection, the Supreme Court said Sunday.

Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing "flu-like symptoms," the court said in a statement.

The court offered no explanation for why it waited two days to disclose that the justice was in the hospital.