The Patriot Post® · KBJ on Broadway: Peak Leftist Privilege

By Emmy Griffin ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/112950-kbj-on-broadway-peak-leftist-privilege-2024-12-19

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the newest of the nine Supreme Court jurists, recently appeared as a special Broadway walk-on in the show “& Juliet.” This queer-themed musical imagines what Juliet’s life would be like had she chosen not to kill herself along with Romeo. The show opened in 2022 and has been nominated for nine Tony awards.

As is all-important to the Left, KBJ achieved another “historic first” — first SCOTUS justice on Broadway.

Here are the videos of her debut:

How did she find the time to be on Broadway? Isn’t being a Supreme Court justice a pretty full-time gig? Aren’t there some very important decisions coming down the pike?

While there is nothing wrong on the surface with KBJ fulfilling a dream — we all have hobbies and dreams — it does display a stark contrast to the lives her conservative colleagues are being forced to live because of deranged radical leftists.

As The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway points out: “It is very nice that Jackson gets to fulfill her dream and appear on Broadway. Conservative justices might like to fulfill much smaller dreams — such as going for a walk with their children, or out to dinner with their spouse, or to the grocery store alone to pick up some food — without facing mobs of activists who seek their harm.”

When put in that light, her appearance on a Tony-nominated show takes on a display of leftist privilege that is rather disgusting.

Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles has yet another take on why performing while also being a member of SCOTUS is not a great look. “It’s not that Ketanji Jackson enjoys theater or musicals or movies or show business,” he said Tuesday. “That’s not what’s degrading. That’s actually commonplace. Many or most politicians, including Supreme Court justices, have some interest in or connection to the theater. … When you become a politician, when you become a statesman, certainly when you become a judge, you need to be sober, you need to be judicious, you need to be serious. Most important of all, you need to be unimpressed by crowds. The most disturbing part of the video for me was how Ketanji Jackson loves the applause of the crowd.”

Knowles goes on to point out that SCOTUS justices aren’t supposed to be seeking votes or popularity; they’re supposed to be impartial and seeking to make right and just decisions, not popular ones.

Perhaps that really hits at the heart of the controversy over her appearance on stage. Because Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Supreme Court justice, she has sworn to serve her country in a very specific role. That role requires that you, as a person, take a back seat while your position, office, and duty take the front seat. Conservative jurists have put that duty above their personal safety, which is why this appearance rubs people the wrong way.

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