Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took to the stage Saturday in his one-off Broadway debut. & julietQueer Musical Works Reimagined romeo and juliet.
Jackson danced, sang, and acted with aplomb during the Dec. 14 production at the Stephen Sondheim Theater, becoming the first sitting Supreme Court justice to appear in a Broadway play.
“I think it means anything is possible,” Jackson says of the one-night role.
The production posted a video of the event on its site instagram page:
The video was also posted on social media platforms such as X.
Saturday's audience saw a very special presentation that other audience members will never see, as the walk-on role was created specifically for Jackson and is not otherwise part of the show. .
Jackson was nominated by Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2022, making her the first Black female high court judge in U.S. history.
Still, Jackson was considered for the bench and has been mired in some controversy since taking the spot.
For example, during confirmation, she claimed not to know what a woman was and refused to define the word. She also declined to say whether she believes Americans have natural rights. It was also revealed in 2012 that she claimed possessing child pornography was not as bad as the law made it seem.
Since taking the seat, she has variously claimed that the ban on transgender drugs for children is “sexist,” claimed that pregnant women are just “pregnancy patients” and are not necessarily women, and argued that racial He made a very strange claim that modern election laws based on Because after the Civil War, Congress enacted race-based laws to correct constitutional deficiencies against blacks.
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