Justice Ginsburg explains SOTU nap: ‘The dinner was so delicious, it needed wine’

Many turned to social media during this year’s State of the Union to call out Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for nodding off.

Another SOTU, another nap for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg http://t.co/wqPyFOrhDC pic.twitter.com/ibtJinTgZZ

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) January 21, 2015

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is just resting her eyes, OK #SOTU http://t.co/sDBzBOiWzq pic.twitter.com/zS8xFbF22k

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 21, 2015

We are all Ruth Bader Ginsburg now. http://t.co/2FCUGeVxxr #zzzzzzzzz #sotu

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 21, 2015

According to The Blaze, however, Justice Anthony Kennedy also deserves some of the blame. When Ginsburg was caught snoozing during the 2013 State of the Union, she attributed the lapse to “a very good California wine” that Justice Kennedy brought to the justices’ pre-State of the Union dinner. It appears that this year Kennedy once again supplied his fellow justices with some pre-State of the Union hooch.

After admitting to an audience at George Washington University Thursday that she was “not 100 percent sober” during the President’s speech, Ginsburg confessed “an Opus something or other” provided by Justice Kennedy was what lured her away from her pledge to stick to sparkling water. “The dinner was so delicious, it needed wine,” Ginsburg explained.

So while many lauded Justice Kennedy as a devoted colleague for his subtle efforts to keep Ginsburg awake (he and Justice Breyer took turns nudging Ginsburg to rouse her), perhaps he was partially motivated by guilt for his own contribution to her drowsiness. Either way, Ginsburg assures critics that she has been chastised enough for her poorly timed nap. “I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters,” Ginsburg told her GWU audience, “and she said, ‘Bubbe, you were sleeping at the State of the Union!’”