U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took time away from her job in the nation’s highest court on Saturday night to appear in the Broadway musical “& Juliet,” featuring a “non-binary” man in a dress.
“It’s very important to remind people that Justices are human beings, that we have dreams, and that we are public servants, and we are not so detached from the people that we serve,” said Jackson in an interview for CBS Mornings.
“Being the first black woman supreme court justice to appear on a Broadway stage, that has been a dream of mine for all of these years,” she added.
The show’s directors added two new scenes specifically to accommodate her one-time walk-on role.
Though small, Jackson’s role allowed her to sing, deliver spoken dialogue, and bow with the cast at the end of the show.
The musical is a modernized version of the classic Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet that considers an alternate version of the story in which Juliet survives after Romeo dies, while in the original play, both characters die in the end.
The modern retelling has Shakespeare’s wife demanding that he rewrite the tragedy so that it has a happier and more feminist tone.
Ironically, the pro-feminist version of the classic play is a throwback to the Elizabethan era, when women were not allowed on stage and female roles were therefore played by men and boys.
The new version features popular pop songs from the 2000s and 2010s, feminist messaging, and a new “non-binary” character played by a man in a dress.
The non-binary character, played by Broadway actor Justin Sullivan, has a prominent romance with a man in the play.
According to Sullivan, who prefers to use “he/she/they” pronouns, his character “goes on a journey of self-discovery, finds love, and explores their gender identity.”
Jackson has bragged that her appearance in “& Juliet” makes her the first sitting SCOTUS Justice to perform on Broadway, a distinction she claims she has long sought.
The justice appeared in the pro-radical gender ideology show as SCOTUS is considering the United States v. Skrmetti.
The high-profile case will determine whether Tennessee, and by extension the rest of the states, has the right to prevent minors from receiving permanently harmful transgender drugs such as puberty blockers.
Jackson has a long expressed her support for radical gender ideology, starting even before she officially joined the Supreme Court.
During her now-infamous confirmation hearings, Jackson claimed that she could not provide a definition of the word “woman” because she is not a biologist.
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