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Yesterday, NPR ran a story to warm liberal hearts headlined, “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a longtime theater lover, makes her Broadway debut.” Ketanji Jackson, who plays a Justice on the Supreme Court, played a one-night, strategically ambiguous cameo role on Saturday night in a tedious, woke Romeo and Juliet remake.



Of the many delighted corporate media articles describing Justice Brown’s “dream come true,” an opportunity we do not begrudge Justice Brown, but who did not earn the unidentified role by merit but was invited by producers (motivated, no doubt, by an embarrassingly urgent need to sell tickets). In other words, she got the part based on who she was rather than on her acting talents.

This is especially ironic since some people —not me, of course— suspect similar considerations motivated the invitation she received for her other role.

In Hamlet —the original, not the woke remake featuring a cast of only native Hawaiian drag queens— Lord Polonius famously observed, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Thus it is worth noting that, according to data analyzer Empirical SCOTUS, even among the female justices, Justice Brown is the Supreme Court’s wordiest judge:



I’m not saying logorrheic Justice Brown is the least intelligent Justice, or even implying she was a DEI hire. Shakespeare said and implied that. Look at the order of justices on Empirical SCOTUS’s word counts list, then consider just how right Lord Polonius was.

Justice Brown’s debut in her unidentified Broadway cameo was in a Tony-nominated “romantic comedy” titled ‘& Juliet,’ a progressive re-imagining of Shakespeare’s boring, patriarchal, racist codswallop. NPR described the new-and-improved production as “a modern take on Shakespeare's tragedy that imagines what would have happened if the female protagonist survived and took control of her own life.”

Pro tip: “modern take” means they couldn’t afford period costumes. That and NPR’s brief description is probably all you need to know to avoid the awful production, but here’s a little more. The play begins with Shakespeare’s “playfully reimagined” third-wave feminist wife, Anne Hathaway, creeping into the Bard’s writing room and rewriting his play’s ending, thereby rescuing the two lovers from death’s clutches and awarding them both new love interests.

Romeo, for example, is paired with a non-binary, cross-dressing man.

I mention these eye-rolling details to make a point about Justice Brown’s judgment. Progressives complained bitterly when a conservative justice’s wife flew a Christian flag. But they think this, Justice Brown pretend-acting in a trans-Shakespeare remake while the court is considering a transgender case is a terrific idea.