Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I wasn’t ‘100 percent sober’ at SOTU - Kendall Breitman

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class="byline">By <span class="vcard"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026/http://www.politico.com/reporters/KendallBreitman.html" rel="author" class="url fn">Kendall Breitman</a></span></p> <p class="timestamp"><time datetime="2015-02-13T09:39-05:00">2/13/15 9:39 AM EDT</time></p> </footer> </div> </div> <p>Blame it on the alcohol.</p> <p>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg blames falling asleep at this year’s State of the Union address on not being “100 percent sober.”</p> <p class="story-continued">Story Continued Below</p> <div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined"> <div class="interrupt-item ad"> <div class="ad-slot orient-vertical" id="core-twentyten-story_pol-05"> </div> </div> </div> <p>“The audience, for the most part, is awake because they are bobbing up and down and we sit there, stone faced,” Ginsburg <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026/http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/13/politics/ginsburg-scalia-parasailing-sotu-wine/" target="_blank">said </a>Thursday during an event hosted by The Smithsonian Associates in Washington, D.C., according to CNN.</p> <p>She continued, “But we’re not, at least I was not, 100 percent sober.”</p> <aside class="story-related"> <article class="story-frag format-sm"> <figure class="thumb"> <div class="fig-graphic"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ruth-bader-ginsburg-gay-marriage-115142.html?ml=ri"><img alt="Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pictured." src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026im_/http://images.politico.com/global/2015/02/12/150212_rbg_gty_1160_90x49.jpg"/></a></div> </figure> <div class="summary"> <header> <p class="category"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ruth-bader-ginsburg-gay-marriage-115142.html?ml=ri">ALSO ON POLITICO</a></p> <h3> <a 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Ginsburg admitted that this year she had slept through the speech “as I often do.”</p> <p>“I vowed this year just sparkling water — stay away from the wine — but the dinner was so delicious it needed wine,” she said, speaking about a dinner party beforehand to which Justice Anthony Kennedy brought “very fine California wine.”</p> <p>She reported getting home from the event to a call from one of her granddaughters.</p> <p>“She said, ‘Bubbe, you were sleeping!’” Ginsburg said.</p> <p>Justice Antonin Scalia, who was also at the Thursday night event, told moderator Nina Totenberg of NPR that he stopped going to the address years ago.</p> <p><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-dnt="true" data-show-count="false" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150704101026/https://twitter.com/politico">Follow @politico</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var 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