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 Ginsburg, 81, could be seen falling asleep in her seat during
Obama's address to a joint session of Congress in the House of
Representatives chamber on Jan. 20.
She explained herself during an event with fellow Justice Antonin
Scalia on Thursday night on the campus of George Washington
University.
The moderator asked the high court's senior liberal justice about
slumbering during one of the big annual events on Washington's
political calendar.
"The audience for the most part is awake, but they're bobbing up and
down all the time. And we sit there as stone-faced, sober judges.
But we're not. At least I wasn't 100 percent sober when we went to
the State of the Union," she said, provoking laughter from the
audience.
"Well, that's the first intelligent thing you've done," joked
Scalia, a leading conservative on the court who makes occasional
public appearances with Ginsburg, including attending operas
together.
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Ginsburg noted that some of the court's justices traditionally dine
together before the speech, and said that Justice Anthony Kennedy
this year brought a "very fine California wine" called "opus
something or other."
"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,"
Ginsburg said.
(Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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