Outgoing CBS Night Information anchor Norah O’Donnell is benefiting from her remaining time on the Tiffany Community. Tonight’s ultimate story stood as an ode to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and to her cameo efficiency in a Broadway play.
Watch the total report for your self under, and take a look at to not be overwhelmed with cringe:
CBS EVENING NEWS
12/16/24
6:57 PM
NORAH O’DONNELL: For a lot of, serving on the Supreme Courtroom is a dream position, it was for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, however she additionally had one other dream. Broadway.
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, ET AL: Present me the that means of being lonely ♪ ♪ is that this the sensation I must stroll with ♪♪
O’DONNELL: Jackson made historical past as the primary Supreme Courtroom justice in a Broadway manufacturing, when she took the stage Saturday within the musical “And Juliet.” I spoke with Justice Jackson earlier this 12 months about her theater ambitions, one thing she wrote about in her Harvard utility.
“As I imagine it’d assist me (quote) to satisfy my fantasy of turning into the primary black feminine Supreme Courtroom justice to look on a Broadway stage.”
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Sure. As a result of I like theater. I imply, I did loads of theater in faculty, and there was a time once I thought, “ought to I’m going into appearing versus legislation?” however, you recognize, I caught with legislation, and so I believed it is a good technique to mix the 2.
O’DONNELL: Properly, the decision on this landmark case was a standing ovation for Jackson. The play “And Juliet” explores what if Juliet hadn’t ended her life for Romeo, and had been given a second probability at love and life on her phrases.
Now we have slightly little bit of omissive bias on the very finish of the report as a result of O’Donnell does not actually disclose what the play is all about. However The New York Put up does:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson briefly ditched the black robes and drama of the Supreme Courtroom and made historical past along with her Saturday evening debut on Broadway within the musical “& Juliet,” a queer reimagining of William Shakespeare’s traditional “Romeo & Juliet.”
Jackson, who informed members of the Senate throughout her 2022 affirmation that she will’t outline what’s a lady as a result of she’s not a biologist, portrayed Queen Mab — described as a “she/her” character on a manufacturing poster — throughout her temporary Broadway stint on Saturday.
Justice Jackson is mainly recognized for her unwillingness to outline a lady at her Senate affirmation hearings. It’s only becoming that she’s now performing in a play that includes sexually confused characters.
In fact, this isn’t the primary time that O’Donnell gushes over Jackson’s utterances. The final time we coated O’Donnell-Jackson was throughout their summer season interview whereby, amongst different issues, O’Donnell attacked the legitimacy of the Courtroom. The remainder of that interview was syrupy sycophancy and an emphasis on Jackson’s “first” standing.
Right here, now, is one other “historic first” for O’Donnell to gush over. It by no means ends!
Jackson was cited as having spoken probably the most phrases spoken in a session since 1990, which makes absolute sense now that we all know she’s a theater child. Historic.
