But they might also enjoy hearing her in work mode. They also know about her seemingly bizarre friendship with noted late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (which is discussed in the film). “Institutions-gate keepers-shut the door to women and those doors have been open very recently,” Ginsburg remarked then, when she was in the midst of spending a career pushing them open. The film opens with Ginsburg’s oft-quoted 1979 remarks where she stands, hair pulled back in a low ponytail with a blue scarf while her thick hoop earrings shimmer, talking about how she excelled in law school but that, after graduation, “not a single law firm in the whole city of New York” would hire her because “of my sex.” Supreme Court?” (Ginsburg believed she was unemployable at the start of her career because she was married, Jewish and a mother to a young daughter). But where it really shines is through its use of archival footage that-as its title suggests-allows Ginsburg to speak for herself in an attempt to answer its own thesis: “How does a person with three strikes against her rise to the highest court in the land, the U.S. The 89-minute film has its share of talking heads who explain the importance of Ginsburg, who died in September 2020 while still serving as an associate justice on the highest court in the land. Ruth: Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words, director Freida Lee Mock’s latest documentary, attempts to give fans some options. Court of Appeals judge and then was appointed to the Supreme Court under President Bill Clinton in 1993, her groundbreaking rulings. Despite all the bobbleheads, T-shirts, The Notorious B.I.G.-inspired memes and nicknames-she is colloquially referred to as The Notorious RBG, or simply RBG-a lot of her fans may not actually be able to name any of the landmark cases she argued or, once she became a U.S. His answer? “I don’t know.”Īnd there’s the rub.
At the end, Redd asks Davidson to say his favorite Ginsburg decision.
In it, performers Pete Davidson and Chris Redd rap about the (liberal) public’s adulation for the equal rights pioneer as Kate McKinnon, clad in the judge’s trademark glasses, tight bun and black robe, flexes behind them. It was released in 2018, which was more or less at the height of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pop cultural domination. There’s a Saturday Night Live sketch that I think about a lot.
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