I saw myself as a kindergarten teacher, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains to the camera at one point during RBG, a documentary about, of course, herself.
Ginsburg was talking about her attempt to get the Supreme Court justices of the 1970s (almost all white, all male) to understand the structural discrimination women faced under the law. During that decade, she argued six cases as an attorney in front of the Supreme Court, all of which had to do with gender discrimination in some capacity. This was Ginsburgs strategy to educate the ignorant, bit by bit, year by year.
The first time she appeared in front of SCOTUS was in 73, on behalf of Air Force Lt. Sharron Frontiero , who was seeking a dependents allowance for her husband that the law only guaranteed for military wives. She won.
Twenty years later, Ginsburg was appointed to serve on the Supreme Court, and 25 years after that, shes still there. The film traces her early life in Brooklyn, as the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York; her education at Cornell, Harvard Law (where she was one of nine women) and Columbia Law; and the quiet, incremental work she did that ended up transforming the way women were seen under the law. All of this before she ended up the most meme-able justice of the bunch.
Theres a certain amount of irony in the fact of an 85-year-old Jewish grandmother who is rough and tough and speaking truth to power, said filmmaker Betsy West, unpacking how an octogenarian who refers to herself as a sober judge could become an icon in the eyes of millennials.
RBG, which comes out on May 4, is a love letter to Ginsburgs life. If youre hoping for a critical analysis of her more centrist tendencies, this film isnt it. But it does humanize the justice, who is not her Saturday Night Live caricature or her Notorious memes or the vile woman some decriers would paint her as. Shes a human woman, with complexity and vigor and a great sense of humor. She adored her husband and loves her grandchildren and works out like a boss and deeply believes in the ability of the United States to evolve as a nation. (Theres a reason former President Bill Clinton decided to appoint Ginsburg to the Supreme Court after interviewing her for 15 minutes.)
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