Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized last month after falling while walking near his home.
"The chief justice was treated at a local hospital on June 21 for an injury to his forehead sustained in a fall while walking for exercise near his home," said Kathy Arberg, public information officer for the Supreme Court. The fall happened at the Chevy Chase Club, according to CNN.
The Washington Post was first to report that Roberts had gone to the hospital. Roberts was taken to Suburban Hospital.
The Supreme Court did not issue any statement to the media in the days after Roberts fell. Arberg says she responded Tuesday night after an inquiry from the Post.
“The injury was not significant,” Arberg told CNN. “He stayed overnight out of an abundance of caution and went home first thing in the morning.”
The fall occurred three days after the court, in a 5-4 vote, rejected President Donald Trump's effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign.
Roberts, 65, has reported having two seizures, one in 1993 and another 2007.
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