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Legislation faculty graduation audio system usually present profession recommendation to budding professionals, however it’s not day by day {that a} sitting Supreme Court docket justice delivers these classes with a popular culture coating.
Addressing American College regulation grads over the weekend, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson confessed her long-standing Survivor fandom, revealing that she’s watched 42 seasons of the present. We’re in the course of the forty fourth season proper now… it’s not clear what she’s missed.
However she’s realized rather a lot over these seasons and located a whole lot of lawyerly knowledge buried on the seaside. Although a few of it appears to talk particularly to her life on the Supreme Court docket:
“My recommendation to you is to do your finest to close out distractions, use your time correctly, and determine the way to take advantage of what you’ve,” Jackson stated. “Season after season, the gamers who are likely to do rather well are those that seem to return in with the understanding that this sport is about current each in neighborhood and battle.”
Really, the gamers who do rather well horde their immunity, know the way to backstab their allies, and perceive the way to make hearth with a flint… unsure how that one relates.
Not every little thing matches up completely with Survivor although. One of many iconic components of a Survivor season is the week the place a fortunate contestant will get to deal with one other tribal council member to a day journey the place they’ll stay in luxurious for a bit and exert a bit of delicate affect earlier than the visitor casts a vote to kick somebody off the island.
And clearly nothing like that would occur on the Supreme Court docket.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells regulation faculty grads ‘Survivor’ gives helpful ‘classes’ for his or her careers [Fox News]
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