Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Born: March 15, 1933
Died: September 18, 2020
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton, replacing retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was generally viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. She eventually became part of the liberal wing of the Court as the Court shifted to the right over time. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. During the early 1960s, she worked with the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure, learned Swedish, and co-authored a book with Swedish jurist Anders Bruzelius; her work in Sweden profoundly influenced her thinking on gender equality. She then became a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field.

Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. Between O'Connor's retirement in 2006 and the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, she was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, notably in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (2007). Ginsburg's dissenting opinion was credited with inspiring the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2009, making it easier for employees to win pay discrimination claims.

Ginsburg received attention in American popular culture for her passionate dissents in numerous cases, widely seen as reflecting paradigmatically liberal views of the law. She was dubbed "The Notorious R.B.G.", and she later embraced the moniker. Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Given the proximity of her death to the 2020 election and Ginsburg's wish for her replacement not to be chosen "until a new president is installed", the decision for President Trump to appoint and all but one of the Republican Senators to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as her replacement proved controversial after the Senate Republican majority's prior refusal to hold a hearing or vote for Merrick Garland in early 2016 under Barack Obama after the death of Antonin Scalia.

Movies for Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

Title: Live to Lead
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2022
Type: TV
Leaders committed to making a difference in the world share their inspiring life stories in this series executive produced by Prince Harry and Meghan.
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
Title: My Name Is Pauli Murray
Character: Herself
Released: September 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Overlooked by history, Pauli Murray was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG's fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall's landmark civil rights arguments. Featuring never-before-seen footage and audio recordings, a portrait of Murray's impact as a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world.
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The Automat
Title: The Automat
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 2021
Type: Movie
The 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers, we watch a business climb to its peak success and then grapple with fast food in a forever changed America.
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Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
Title: Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
“Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic” follows Lydic on a journey through the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and… what's the opposite of the acceptance? —as she comes to terms with the passing of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and where to go from here.
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RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Title: RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
Character: Self
Released: June 22, 2019
Type: Movie
How does some one with three strikes against her, rise to the highest court in the land, the U. S. Supreme Court?
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On the Basis of Sex
Title: On the Basis of Sex
Character: Self
Released: December 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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Out of Many, One
Title: Out of Many, One
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 2018
Type: Movie
The U.S. has long offered a promise of opportunity to immigrants, but currently immigration has become a divisive issue. This documentary illustrates how an understanding of our history and democracy is essential to constructive debate, informed civic participation and shaping a new class of citizens.
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Fahrenheit 11/9
Title: Fahrenheit 11/9
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Michael Moore's provocative documentary explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How did we get here, and how do we get out.
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Reversing Roe
Title: Reversing Roe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary that delves deep into the history of abortion law, revealing the contradictory ways in which women's bodies have been used to further political and ideological agendas.
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RBG
Title: RBG
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.
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The Sturgeon Queens
Title: The Sturgeon Queens
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the store, this documentary features an extensive interview with two of the original daughters for whom the store was named, now 100 and 92 years old, and interviews with prominent enthusiasts of the store including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, chef Mario Batali, New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, and 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer. Rather than a conventional narrator, the filmmakers bring together six colorful longtime fans of the store, in their 80s and 90s, who sit around a table of fish reading the script in the style of a passover Seder. - Written by Julie Cohen
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Title: Makers: Women Who Make America
Character: Self
Released: February 26, 2013
Type: TV
The story of the modern American women’s movement and its impact on work fields once largely closed to women.
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Citizen Koch
Title: Citizen Koch
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Wisconsin—birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, cheeseheads and Paul Ryan—becomes a test market in the campaign to buy Democracy, and ground zero in the battle for the future of the GOP.
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Title: Capitalism: A Love Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Title: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of the actor, writer and broadcasting pioneer, Gertrude Berg.
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Fahrenheit 9/11
Title: Fahrenheit 9/11
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.