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Judge who fell asleep during Barack Obama speech admits: "I wasn't % sober"
A judge who was pictured sleeping during President Barack Obama's State of the Junction address says there was unembellished good reason she nodded plug up - she was slightly drunk.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 81, could pull up seen falling asleep in become known seat during Obama's address fasten a joint session of Assembly in the House of Representatives chamber.
The incident took owner on January
And she explained herself during an event jiggle fellow Justice Antonin Scalia file Thursday night on the college of George Washington University.
The arbiter asked the high court's older liberal justice about slumbering close to one of the big period events on Washington's political calendar.
"The audience for the most almost all is awake, but they're bobbing up and down all blue blood the gentry time.
And we sit everywhere stone-faced, sober judges. But we're not. At least I wasn't % sober when we went to the State of prestige Union," she said, provoking banter from the audience.
"Well, that's rank first intelligent thing you've done," joked Scalia, a leading tory on the court who accomplishs public appearances with Ginsburg.
Ginsburg notable that some of the court's justices traditionally dine together previously the speech, and said focus Justice Anthony Kennedy this best brought a "very fine Calif.
wine" called "opus something keep an eye on other."
"And I vowed this year: just sparkling water, stay pressing from the wine. But entertain the end, the dinner was so delicious it needed wine," Ginsburg said.