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## Video: Justice Ginsberg Says She Wasn't Entirely Sober During the State of the Union

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_Published 2015-02-13. During a talk at George Washington University on Thursday night, Justice Ginsberg reveals she wasn't entirely sober when she fell asleep during the State of the Union._


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## Transcript

You went to the State of the Union this year and you fell asleep. << as i ="" often ="" do .="" << serves ="" you !="" << and ="" it ="" you ="" right ,="" say .="" serves ="" right ="" for ="" going .. The audience for the most part is awake, because they're bobbing up and down all the time. [ LAUGH ] And we sit there as stone- faced, as sober judges, but we're not, at least I wasn't 100 % sober. Because before we went to the State of The Union. [ LAUGH ] We had, we had dinner together and I vowed this, they had just brought me water, stay away from the wine but in the end, the dinner was so delicious it needed wine to accompany it.

So, so I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, " Bubby, you were sleeping at the State of the Union ."

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