CBS Swoons Over Ketanji Brown Jackson With Her BFF ‘Hype Team’

On Friday, in preparation for the beginning of Senate affirmation hearings for President Biden’s left-wing Supreme Courtroom nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson subsequent week, CBS Mornings supplied a “beautiful” profile of the federal choose by chatting together with her “oldest pals.” The members of Jackson’s self-described “hype crew” got a nationwide platform to swoon over the “brilliance” of their BFF.

“Plus, affirmation hearings begin on Monday for Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson….Nancy Cordes spoke to a few of her oldest pals – oldest pals at all times inform the reality – who will not be stunned by her success,” co-host and Democratic Social gathering donor Gayle King gushed on the high of the present. Fellow liberal co-host Tony Dokoupil excitedly chimed in: “I’m trying ahead to that.”

 

 

Later, within the 8:00 a.m. ET hour, the published devoted 4 minutes of air time to correspondent Nancy Cordes speaking to Jackson’s “longtime pals” about being her cheering part. “I’ve at all times identified she could possibly be the one,” proclaimed College of Pennsylvania regulation professor and Jackson’s school good friend Lisa Fairfax. Cordes touted how Fairfax “has identified Ketanji Brown Jackson for greater than half her life, cheering her on as she went from public defender to federal choose to Supreme Courtroom nominee.”

Fairfax hailed: “The unmitigated pleasure of seeing somebody that I really like be nominated is why I’m nonetheless smiling proper now and doubtless on the brink of tear up.” Cordes declared: “Fairfax is one-fourth of a exceptional quartet. 4 girls who met they’re freshman 12 months at Harvard College and all went on collectively to Harvard Legislation Faculty.”

Northeastern College regulation professor and Jackson’s school roommate Antoinette Coakley preached that her good friend’s nomination was “divine intervention.” Cordes hyped how Jackson “pushed her pals to excel,” earlier than asserting: “By sophomore 12 months, Coakley was brazenly predicting that her roommate would sometime be the primary black lady to be named to the Supreme Courtroom.”

Coakley heralded:

I assumed if there was ever a possibility for somebody that got here from our background to ascend to these heights it might be her. It needed to be her. She had the eager intelligence, the brilliance, the power to deliver folks collectively.

Recalling the second weeks earlier when Biden named Jackson to the excessive courtroom, Fairfax advised of “sobbing hysterically” with pleasure whereas company legal professional and school good friend Nina Simmons remembered: “We simply screamed, leaping up and down.”

The one second in your entire fawning section when Cordes even acknowledged criticism was when she sympathetically requested Fairfax: “Some moments are more durable than others. How did you are feeling and the way did she really feel while you heard some folks saying, ‘Nicely, President Biden established a quota and he or she’s simply gonna be there to fulfill a quota’?” Fairfax lamented: “How I felt is that they don’t perceive. They don’t perceive that if there’s a barrier in place, you’ll be able to’t ignore it.”

Fairfax then concluded: “What does it imply, her nomination, and hopefully affirmation? What does it imply? It means America, come on, sure. That is who we wish to be. That is who we stated we wish to be.”

Cordes wrapped up the report by applauding Jackson’s profession: “If confirmed, Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the primary former public defender to sit down on the excessive courtroom, which means that for years she represented defendants who in any other case couldn’t have afforded an legal professional, a proper enshrined within the Structure.”

King praised the puff piece: “You may at all times rely in your girlfriends to get you thru and help you and carry you up. Thanks, Nancy, that was actually beautiful.”

Utterly lacking from the sycophantic protection was any crucial examination of Choose Jackson’s precise file. There was no point out of the controversy swirling round her displaying leniency to intercourse offenders, defending a Guantanamo Bay detainee terror suspect in courtroom, or espousing help for radical concepts like Important Race Idea.

As an alternative, CBS mirrored the ridiculous softball cheerleading for Jackson that ABC’s Good Morning America engaged in only one week earlier, when correspondent Deborah Roberts spoke to the very same group of “lifelong pals” to spice up the Supreme Courtroom nominee.

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Here’s a full transcript of the March 18 section:

7:02 AM ET TEASE

GAYLE KING: Plus, affirmation hearings begin on Monday for Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson. She might turn into the primary black lady on the Supreme Courtroom. Nancy Cordes spoke to a few of her oldest pals – oldest pals at all times inform the reality – who will not be stunned by her success.

TONY DOKOUPIL: I’m trying ahead to that.

8:13 AM ET SEGMENT

VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Affirmation hearings start Monday on Capitol Hill for President Biden’s Supreme Courtroom nominee, Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson. If authorized, she could be the primary African American lady to serve on the best courtroom within the nation. It’s a distinction, imagine it or not, that one in all her pals first predicted method again once they met in school. Nancy Cordes caught up with three of Choose Jackson’s oldest pals.

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Who Is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson?; Longtime Friends Describe Relationship With Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee]

LISA FAIRFAX [UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSOR]: I’ve at all times identified she could possibly be the one.

NANCY CORDES: Lisa Fairfax has identified Ketanji Brown Jackson for greater than half her life, cheering her on as she went from public defender to federal choose to Supreme Courtroom nominee.

FAIRFAX: The unmitigated pleasure of seeing somebody that I really like be nominated is why I’m nonetheless smiling proper now and doubtless on the brink of tear up.

CORDES: Fairfax is one-fourth of a exceptional quartet. 4 girls who met they’re freshman 12 months at Harvard College and all went on collectively to Harvard Legislation Faculty.

ANTOINETTE COAKLEY [NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW PROFESSOR]: I believe it was divine intervention.

CORDES: Like Fairfax, Antoinette Coakley is now a regulation professor. Nina Simmons is a company legal professional.

NINA SIMMONS [CORPORATE ATTORNEY]: We met, we bonded, we turned roommates, after which we turned lifelong pals.

CORDES: Fairfax says it was a younger Ketanji Brown, the kid of two lecturers, who pushed her pals to excel.

FAIRFAX: I bear in mind she would – she would say to me, “, a lot may be achieved early within the mornings.” Like, actually? [Laughter]

CORDES: You’re like, “We’re in school, I believe I’ll sleep in.”  

FAIRFAX: Yeah, “I’m making an attempt to sleep proper now.” However you recognize, that was her. All the time centered and devoted.

CORDES: By sophomore 12 months, Coakley was brazenly predicting that her roommate would sometime be the primary black lady to be named to the Supreme Courtroom.

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Thanks very a lot, Mr. President. I’m actually humbled.

COAKLEY: That’s actually true. That’s actually true. I assumed if there was ever a possibility for somebody that got here from our background to ascend to these heights it might be her. It needed to be her. She had the eager intelligence, the brilliance, the power to deliver folks collectively.

CORDES: However believing it and seeing it occur are two various things.

TONY DOKOUPIL: President Biden has narrowed his checklist of potential Supreme Courtroom nominees to 1.

FAIRFAX: I simply pulled over. I simply sat within the automobile. I’m like sobbing hysterically, my fingers are shaking. Instantly I name Nina, and Nina picks up and I simply scream. We’re screaming like –  “Oh, my God!”

SIMMONS: We simply screamed, leaping up and down. My children have been like, “What’s fallacious?! What’s fallacious?!” I’m like “Ahhh!” Then I assume somebody texted my daughter and he or she’s like, “Okay, I do know why you’re screaming.”

CORDES: Now they name themselves her hype crew, as she plows by way of conferences with dozens of senators.

COAKLEY: I’ve been sending her scriptures and prayers and, you recognize, songs that I do know will encourage her and encourage her as a result of this can be a lot.

CORDES: Some moments are more durable than others. How did you are feeling and the way did she really feel while you heard some folks saying, “Nicely, President Biden established a quota and he or she’s simply gonna be there to fulfill a quota”?

FAIRFAX: How I felt is that they don’t perceive. They don’t perceive that if there’s a barrier in place, you’ll be able to’t ignore it.

What does it imply, her nomination, and hopefully affirmation? What does it imply? It means America, come on, sure. That is who we wish to be. That is who we stated we wish to be.

CORDES: And there’s one other first to consider right here, too. If confirmed, Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the primary former public defender to sit down on the excessive courtroom, which means that for years she represented defendants who in any other case couldn’t have afforded an legal professional, a proper enshrined within the Structure. Gayle?

KING: You may at all times rely in your girlfriends to get you thru and help you and carry you up. Thanks, Nancy, that was actually beautiful.

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