Ginsburg: 'I wasn't 100 パーセント sober' at 明言する／公表する of the Union
WASHINGTON (AP) ― 最高裁判所 司法（官） Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a surprising 自白: She "wasn't 100 パーセント sober" when she fell asleep at the 大統領，／社長's 明言する／公表する of the Union 演説（する）／住所 last month.
Ginsburg told an audience Thursday night that she drank some ワイン at dinner before …に出席するing the 年次の speech, where cameras 繰り返して caught her nodding off.
The 81-year-old jurist said she was at dinner with other 司法（官）s and couldn't resist "the very 罰金 California ワイン" that 司法（官） Anthony Kennedy brought.
In this p hoto taken Jan. 20, 2015 members of the 最高裁判所, 含むing 司法（官） Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 中心, 残り／休憩（する）s during 大統領 Barack Obama's 明言する／公表する of the Union 演説（する）／住所 on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill in Washington. Ginsburg has a 自白: She "wasn't 100 パーセント sober" when she fell asleep at the 大統領，／社長's 明言する／公表する of the Union 演説（する）／住所 last month. Ginsburg told an audience Thursday that she drank some ワイン at dinner before …に出席するing the speech, where cameras 繰り返して caught her nodding off. The 81-year-old 司法（官） says she had dined with 司法（官） Anthony Kennedy and couldn't resist the California ワイン he brought. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
"The audience for the most part is awake, because they're bobbing up and 負かす／撃墜する, and we sit there, 石／投石する-直面するd. But we're not, at least I wasn't, 100 パーセント sober," Ginsburg said to laughter and 賞賛 during a 共同の 外見 with 司法（官） Anthony Scalia at George Washington University.
Ginsburg, who 定評のある dozing at the speech in past years, said she tried to resist the ワイン and stick to sparkling water, but to no avail.
"In the end, the dinner was so delicious it needed ワイン," she said.
In previous years, she said it helped that former 司法（官） David Souter would keep an 注目する，もくろむ on her.
"When he was on the 法廷，裁判所, he was on one 味方する and he had 激烈な／緊急の sense of when I was about to, so he would give me a pinch," she said. "Now I have 司法（官） Kennedy on one 味方する and 司法（官） (Stephen) Breyer and they are sort of timid about that thing."
After she got home, Ginsburg said she got a call from one of her granddaughters. "She said, 'Bubbe, you were sleeping at the 明言する／公表する of the Union!'"
The comments （機の）カム in a talk sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates and 穏健なd by 国家の Public R adio's Nina Totenberg.
Her 自白 誘発するd some gentle ribbing from Scalia, who makes it a habit to skip the 大統領，／社長's 年次の 演説（する）／住所 to 議会.
"Serves you 権利, I say, serves you 権利 for going," he teased Ginsburg.
Scalia said he stopped going years ago to escape what he called "a childish spectacle."
"One 味方する jumps up and the other 味方する jumps up and we sit there, you know, like bumps on a スピードを出す／記録につける," Scalia said.
