WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and the first lady are watching a sold-out play about a former Supreme Court justice at the Kennedy Center.June 11, 2010 | 5:08 p.m.
The president and Michelle Obama were seen in the president's box at the Kennedy Center, where they are taking in a performance of "Thurgood," a play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Marshall was the first black justice on the court. He is being played by actor Laurence Fishburne in the one-man show.
As a reminder, Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan clerked for Thurgood Marshall. Just last week, CBS News found legal memos from her time as Justice Thurgood Marshall’s law clerk that show her sympathetic to abortion and desegregation, and having sympathies towards alternative marriages.
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