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Is it too much to ask for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to stay awake during oral arguments?

Shouldn't that be a minimum requirement?

That's what the Senate Judiciary Committee should have grilled John Roberts and Samuel Alito on -- Can you keep from napping when you're bored out of your mind?

I suppose Roberts and Alito proved they met that standard by staying alert during all the pontificating and grandstanding that they had to sit through at their confirmation hearings.

Definitely. Staying awake is a crucial quality if one is to be considered fit to sit on the highest court in the land.
WASHINGTON -- A key Supreme Court justice said Wednesday that Texas Republicans appeared to hurt minority voters when they redrew congressional boundaries that helped the GOP entrench its power in Congress.

But despite Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's misgivings, it did not appear there was broad support on the high court to throw out the entire map promoted by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to help Republicans win six more seats.

Justices also did not seem ready to bar states from drawing their boundaries more than once a decade.

The court took up four appeals that raised complicated questions about voter rights both under the Constitution and federal election law.

This is an important case, but not important enough to keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg from taking a snooze.
The Supreme Court had put the Texas cases on the fast track, scheduling an unusually long two-hour afternoon session.

The subject matter was extremely technical, and near the end of the argument Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dozed in her chair. Justices David Souter and Samuel Alito, who flank the 72-year-old, looked at her but did not give her a nudge.

I don't care how technical the subject matter was, this wasn't nap time.

Maybe Ginsburg was drunk. Yeah, that's it. She had a three martini lunch and she was sleeping it off. Souter and Alito didn't nudge her because they feared waking her. They know that she's an angry drunk.

Sound plausible?

No doubt if Scalia had been the sleeper, libs would be coming up with that type of explanation.
I think that Ginsburg nodding off during arguments is the surest sign yet that the libs are steeped in a Culture of Sleepiness.
Say "Goodnight," Ruthie...