[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates joined CNN Newsroom on Friday to react to the official announcement of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. According to Coates, Jackson is almost a goddess-type figure who has descended from Mount Olympus and that she only hopes she will be afforded due process before the Senate.
While others in the media have described the liberal Jackson as a “middle of the road” nominee, Coates went well above and well beyond that, “I think she brings here is the knowledge of don't we want somebody in the Supreme Court of the United States, only nine of them, to reflect the people of the United States. Not just in scholarship although her credentials frankly sounded as if Mount Olympus decided to choose and give her each of the credentials and gave this great almost a legal deity of sorts. And yet she disrupted the myth that you had to be but one thing in order to be a Supreme Court justice.”