Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Appearances
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Well, you know, I got a call and someone said, we heard that this was your lifelong dream and it is.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
To be a Broadway performer and a justice. I had both of those. Really? Yes. I wanted, I told the Harvard admissions people that I needed to go there because I wanted to be the first black female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
It is an actual Broadway show. It is Anne Juliet. They have invited me to do a special walk-on role that I'm told they wrote for me. Wow. So I'm very excited.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
you know, I actually like it. What does it entail? Yeah, what do you have to do? Well, we changed some of the services that were available to the justices and the staff during my tenure, so I feel very proud of it.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Well, we didn't have online ordering before. And in my former court, you had an app on your phone and you could send down for a sandwich and then go pick it up and not have to wait in the big public line. And when I got to the Supreme Court, I was like, this is outrageous. You have to stand in a line to get a sandwich?
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Yes. Right? Mo and I knew each other in college, which was fantastic.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Well, we were in a class together, a drama class, and Matt Damon at that time, and Mo might know this, I don't know, but he was kind of well-known on campus and in the local community because he had already started doing community theater. Right. And so we took a drama class and the teacher paired us up for a scene. You and Matt Damon. Me and Matt Damon.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
And it was kind of exciting because I thought, oh, this guy's going to go on and be a real actor.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
And, you know, we did the scene, and it was some play that didn't have a whole lot of action, like waiting for Godot or something, where you're just sitting on the stage.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
But at the end, the professor said, oh, Ketanji, you were so good. Matt, we'll talk. No. Yes. Yes. And I was like, oh my goodness! I was so excited. Oh my God, that is just terrible.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Oh, my goodness. Well, I'm going to eliminate C, I think.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Um... I'm going to say Fox in the Snowy Winter.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
No, I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say Popcorn. Popcorn. You are.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
All right. I'm going to say chilly.
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WWDTM: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Diana Ross at Marshalls? I'm going with the fanny pack.