The audience for the most part is awake, because they’re bobbing up and down, and we sit there — stone-faced, sober judges. But we’re not — at least I wasn’t — 100 percent sober.
Justice Kennedy brought in … it was an Opus something or other, very fine California wine that Justice Kennedy brought and I vowed this year just sparkling water, stay away from the wine. But in the end, the dinner was so delicious, it needed wine to accompany it.
So I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, “Bubbe, you were sleeping at the State of the Union.”
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— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cracking up as she recounted the tale of why she appeared to have fallen asleep at this year’s State of the Union address, during a speaking engagement last night at George Washington University with Justice Antonin Scalia.
In response to Justice Ginsburg’s story, Justice Scalia quipped, “Well, that’s the first intelligent thing you’ve done.” Party foul!