Sen. Jim Bunning scrambled Monday to clean up for his seemingly cold-blooded prognosis of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsburg,” the two-term Kentucky Republican said in a statement. “That certainly was not my intent.” The former Major League pitcher said Saturday that Ginsburg, who recently underwent surgery to remove a small tumor, has “bad cancer. The kind that you don’t get better from,” the Courier-Journal of Louisville reported. “Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live” with pancreatic cancer. The 75-year-old justice was back in court Monday, less than three weeks after her affliction was made public. “It is great to see her back at the Supreme Court today and I hope she recovers quickly,” the 77-year-old Bunning said. “My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.” Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg to the high court in 1993. She is the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. If Ginsburg or another justice were to leave the court, President Barack Obama would be responsible for naming her successor, who would be subject to Senate confirmation.