Justice Ginsburg ‘not 100% sober’ at State of the Union

What really happened before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended the State of the Union?

Supreme Court ideological opposites Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia came together for a discussion on constitutional issues Thursday night in an event hosted by The Smithsonian Associates and moderated by NPR’s Nina Totenberg.

Scalia had expressed his disdain for the State of the Union and that he stopped attending years ago. Ginsburg admitted, that once again, she fell asleep, “as I often do.”

“The audience for the most part is awake because they are bobbing up and down and we sit there, stone-faced,” she said.

“But we’re not, at least I was not 100 percent sober,” she said to big applause.

She blamed a fine wine Justice Kennedy had brought to dinner before hand.

“I vowed this year — just sparkling water — stay away from the wine — but the dinner was so delicious it needed wine.”

She said when she got home she got a call from one of her granddaughters. “She said, BUBIE, you were sleeping!”