CNN anchor Don Lemon and co-anchor Kaitlan Collins expressed their shock that highly intelligent contestants appearing on “Jeopardy!” didn’t know who Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee who became the first black woman on the Supreme Court, was.
The two co-anchors were discussing with fellow co-anchor Poppy Harlow clues that have elicited criticism on “Jeopardy!” including this week’s clue that featured the murderer of Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie. They showed a clip from a show earlier in November in which host Ken Jennings prompted, “She’s the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and the first justice to have been a federal public defender.”
After none of the contestants offered an answer, Jennings informed them, “That’s Justice Jackson — Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
At first Collins sympathized with the contestants, contending, “I don’t think that’s that surprising, I will say. A lot of people don’t know who is on the Supreme Court.”
