Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'I Wasn't 100 Percent Sober' At State Of The Union

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's rabid Internet following is sure to go nuts over the admission that she dozed off at the President's State of the Union address after drinking a fine wine.

Ginsburg was asked about her SOTU catnap Thursday at George Washington University, where she and her colleague Justice Antonin Scalia were interviewed by NPR.

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"The audience for the most part is awake because they're bobbing up and down all the time. And we sit there, stone faced, the sober judges," Ginsburg said. "But we're not, at least I was not, 100 percent sober."

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[deurbano]

1. I love her!

[malthaussen]

2. Rock on, Ruth n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. She did look a little out of it that night

I thought maybe she was very ill. This explains why I thought she was out of it.

[midnight]

4. Even resting her eyes she looks respectful… How does she do it?

[sorefeet]

5. Look at the scowl on Roberts

what a hateful prick. The halls of congress reeked of booze during the Cruz shutdown.

[Rose Siding]

6. Neither was I, Notorious RBG!!!

love

[Sanity Claws]

7. Haha

She couldn't play a drinking game like State of the Union bingo while sitting there so she imbibed earlier. Good for her!

[90-percent]

8. Well, then

If you expand the range of substances that cause intoxication beyond alcohol into prescription and recreational drugs, I would guess Ginsburg would have been in the clear majority. I mean, the way some of these guys reason and conduct themselves, one would think they consume drugs more voraciously than Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"! Whatever drug they consume, my guess is it's on the top of the list of drugs that create pathological criminally insane psychosis.


-90% Jimmy

[Jamastiene]

28. I wish I could find the government's drug supply and spike it with weed.

We might get reasonable legislation from Congress, less sadistic enforcement of laws in the Executive Branch, and a bunch of unconstitutional crap struck from the books in the Judicial branch. Take their coke away and give them some weed. So many of them won't be such huge assholes then.

[leveymg]

9. Gotta love someone who's smart enough to be honest.

She's one the best.

[still_one]

10. and the rabid media and right wing, where probably half of them are alcoholics try to pump this up

in the most negative connotation

[RobinA]

16. As Would

everyone around here if this weren't a liberal judge.

[blackspade]

11. 'I Wasn't 100 Percent Sober'

So what is the GOP excuse? They are not '100 Percent Sane?'

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. No doubt everyone is drinking before the SOTU. Look at Boner, he openly drinks on camera

during the SOTU.

[George II]

17. Did you see his rant yesterday telling the Senate Democrats to "get off their asses"? .....

....I was SURE he was sloshed. With that "tan" he hides it well except for the constantly bloodshot eyes.

[Dont call me Shirley]

31. The Orwellian Boner was too drunk to remember that he leads the party of stagnancy.

Missed his speech yesterday. It's easy for me to spot when he's wasted, which is most of the time.

[George II]

33. Here it is.....

[Dont call me Shirley]

34. Demograts? Ok, way more than three sheets.

[Paladin]

13. If I had to work with shithooks like Scalia and Roberts, I'd be drinking more, as well. (nt)

[frylock]

21. word up

[Jamastiene]

29. Well said. n/t

[elleng]

14. I KNEW we were related, VERY low tolerance,

1/2 glass is my limit!!!

Would love to see the rest of the interview.

[George II]

18. Mine too, but in my case it's my lower limit

[Beacool]

26. Well, she's a bitty little thing and probably on medication.

That would lower her capacity to absorb alcohol.

On the other hand, I can handle most of a bottle of wine without much of a problem. I was raised in countries that serve wine with every meal and I'm used to it.


A toast to Justice Ginsburg.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

15. And did the pricks on either side of her bother to see if she were ok? nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

19. She is an incredible human. One of the best judges on the court.

And arguably one of the best things Clinton did in office.

[VA_Jill]

20. God bless her!

We really do need 9 of her on the court!

[frylock]

22. i would love to have a beer with her!

[Historic NY]

23. Hell a lot of people that post here aren't either....

I'm just saying...

[OldRedneck]

24. Even if she were knee-walking, shit-faced, commode-hugging wiped out . . .

Even if she were knee-walking, shit-faced, commode-hugging wiped out . . . she'd be sharper than Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts combined.

[Beacool]

25. I laughed out loud at her admission.

Good for her!!! It's the only way to listen to these things anyway. They are always boring and serve no other purpose than for a president to extol and pad his accomplishments and those of his administration. After listening to so many of them over the years, I now skip them altogether and read the transcripts later on to see if there are any new proposals that are worthy and actually feasible.

Besides, no good wine should go to waste.

[Jamastiene]

27. Gotta admire her for admitting it.

Of course, she is missing the best part of Obama's presidency if she misses his speeches, though. The man gives great speeches.

Still, I can see how that would be hard to sit there all stone faced and still like that. That would be torture for me.

[Thinkingabout]

30. Thing about her is she is better than most of the rest when she asleep than they are stone sober.

[wpelb]

32. The optics are not good, but . . .

The main thing is that she and her colleagues are awake when hearing or discussing cases.