CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, repeatedly tried to bait Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson into trashing her conservative colleagues on Tuesday, only for her to stymie him with multiple “no comment” responses. At one point, Colbert lamented “that’s a layup” in response to one of her non-responses.
Jackson was on to promote her new book, and Colbert recalled that “You write also in the book how the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were so important to you as a child, and I know you can't share your opinion of Justice Roberts taking a chainsaw to those.”
That did not mean that Colbert would not try to get her to attack Roberts, “But why were they, why were they so meaningful to you? I'm curious what you think of Justice Ginsburg's interpretation of the argument that was made by the majority that well, we don't really need the entirety of these acts anymore because racism isn't as influential in our voting or in our expressed public rights anymore. She said it's like saying, ‘Well, I'm not getting wet, so let's get rid of umbrellas.’”
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