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19. The point is if you want to pick a single justice to represent the Supreme Court at the SOTU,

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:10 AM

Jan 2015

don't pick someone that has repeatedly fallen asleep at them...

"She has joked that in the past former Justice David Souter was the designated nudger."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/obamas-speech-didnt-excite-ginsburg/2013/02/13/b4531d8e-75fc-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_blog.html

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Why 3 Supreme Court Justices Didn’t Attend the State of the Union [View all] mfcorey1 Jan 2015 OP

Frankly Sherman A1 Jan 2015 #1

Ginsburg apparently fell asleep at this SOTU. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2015 #8

I am not understanding which point you are trying to make. merrily Jan 2015 #10

Oh I see, you are picking her to be the only justice not at the STOU PoliticAverse Jan 2015 #24

You are right. I better change my post merrily Jan 2015 #26

I did too and do so every year Sherman A1 Jan 2015 #11

She had a stent placed in a heart artery this last week. longship Jan 2015 #15

My bad. My original post about Ginsburg led PoliticAverse astray. merrily Jan 2015 #29

Based upon his opinion of the SOTU Speech, Thomas avebury Jan 2015 #4

And that was BEFORE he was seated ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #14

Actually ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #30

Perhaps it is that we tend to engage only around our disagreements. merrily Jan 2015 #31

LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #32

Key word being "only?" merrily Jan 2015 #33

Alito can't keep his mouth shut anyway caraher Jan 2015 #5

Probably attending right-wing fund raisers... KansDem Jan 2015 #6

It is a heavily political event, I'm okay if they all skip it. n/t tammywammy Jan 2015 #16

Same here. I couldn't care less if the SC justices are there are not. Pacifist Patriot Jan 2015 #17

They should skip it. There is no reason for them to be there. Vattel Jan 2015 #18

Was 'Real Housewives of New York' renewed? Octafish Jan 2015 #27

Clarence Thomas wrote the book on partisan politics. B Calm Jan 2015 #28

Sonia Sotomayor skipped last year's SOTU former9thward Jan 2015 #34

No surprise Scalia thinks it's a childish spectacle AndreaCG Jan 2015 #35

Uncle Ruckus complaining about partisanship? hifiguy Jan 2015 #36