Norah O'Donnell Conducts Strikingly Different Interviews Of Two Supreme Court Justices

Posted • September 5, 2025: Scoring an interview with a Supreme Court justice is a pretty big get for a journalist. Even in today's media environment, where justices are a little more engaged in media than they traditionally have been, there are still only nine of them, and none of them need the media, since they don't have to campaign for office. So, getting the chance to interview TWO justices would be doubly prestigious. You would think that any reporter would be humbled and honored by the opportunity and do their best to put their best foot forward to reflect only the highest level of professionalism for themselves and their network. But you would be wrong. Norah O'Donnell of CBS News has had that very opportunity. And instead of being professional, she decided to humiliate herself. See if you can notice the differences in how O'Donnell approached interviewing Justice Amy Coney Barrett versus how she treated Ketanji Brown Jackson. They're ever-so subtle, but they're there.

Spot the difference between Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell and Justice Amy Coney Barrett's interview with Norah O'Donnell. —— Good Lord. WE know O'Donnell is not capable of embarrassment, but we are embarrassed for her. We're not sure which of those two clips O'Donnell should be more ashamed of. Treating Barrett like she was interrogating a prisoner at Gitmo, or the syrupy fan-girling over Jackson. We'll just embrace the power of 'AND.' —— if you really focus and strain, a slight discrepancy may be detected. Ya think? How demeaning for CBS News, which is in the business of demeaning itself. To be fair, this underscores the intelligence level of both women. One who can handle tough questions and the other who must be handled like a child. It also underscores what O'Donnell thinks her job is. And that job has nothing to do with journalism. Interviews like this one are why Bari Weiss should remove Norah O’Donnell if she cares about the integrity of the CBS brand. (…)

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