on the basis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Basis_of_Sex:
notes/quotes from film (via netflix): On the Basis of Sex is a 2018 American biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court..plot: In 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a first-year student at Harvard Law School, when her husband Martin Ginsburg, a second-year student, is diagnosed with testicular cancer. She attends both her classes and his, taking notes and transcribing lectures while caring for Martin and their infant daughter Jane. Two years later, Martin’s cancer is in remission and he is hired by a firm in New York City. Ruth petitions Harvard Law School Dean Griswold to allow her to complete her Harvard law degree with classes at Columbia Law School in New York, but he insists on following Harvard University policies at the time and denies her request, so she transfers to Columbia. In spite of graduating at the top of her class, she is unable to find a position with a law firm because none of the firms she applies to wants to hire a woman. She takes a job as a professor at Rutgers Law School, teaching “Sex Discrimination and the Law”.. In 1970, Martin brings Moritz v. Commissioner, a tax law case, to Ruth’s attention. Charles Moritz is a man from Denver who had to hire a nurse to help him care for his aging mother so he could continue to work. Moritz was denied a tax deduction for the nursing care because at the time Section 214 of the Internal Revenue Code specifically limited the deduction to “a woman, a widower or divorcée, or a husband whose wife is incapacitated or institutionalized”. The court ruled that Moritz, a man who had never married, did not qualify for the deduction. Ruth sees in this case an opportunity to begin to challenge the many laws enacted over the years that assume that men will work to provide for the family, and women will stay home and take care of the husband and children. She believes that if she could set a precedent ruling that a man was unfairly discriminated against on the basis of sex, that precedent could be cited in cases challenging laws that discriminate against women—and she believes that an appellate court composed entirely of male judges would find it easier to identify with a male appellant..Ruth meets with Mel Wulf of the ACLU to try to enlist their help, but he turns her down. Ruth flies to Denver to meet with Moritz, who agrees to let the Ginsburgs and ACLU represent him pro bono after Ruth convinces him that millions of people could potentially benefit. After reading the draft of the brief, Dorothy Kenyon, who was cold to the idea at first, meets with Wulf in his office and convinces him to sign on. The Ginsburgs and Wulf file an appeal of Moritz’s denial with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Department of Justice Attorney James H. Bozarth asks to be the lead counsel for the defense. Bozarth does a computer search to find all of the sections of the US Code that deal with sex. His defense will contend that, if section 214 is ruled unconstitutional, that will open the door to challenge all of America’s sex-based laws. Ruth, having no courtroom experience, does poorly in a moot court, and Wulf convinces her to let Martin lead off arguing the tax law, with Ruth following up with equal protection arguments… The government offers Moritz a settlement of one dollar. Ruth makes a counter-proposal: the government will pay Moritz the sum he claimed as a deduction and make a declaration that he did nothing wrong, and also enter into the record that the sex-based portion of section 214 is unconstitutional. The government declines this proposal because of the constitutionality element. During oral argument at the Court of Appeals, Martin takes more of their side’s allotted time than he had intended. Ruth is nervous but makes several key points and reserves four minutes of her time for rebuttal. Bozarth frames his side’s argument as defending the American way of life, implying that the Ginsburgs and ACLU want “radical social change” and maybe Moritz “just doesn’t want to pay his taxes”. In her rebuttal, Ruth is much more confident. She states that societal roles that existed one hundred years ago, or even twenty years ago, no longer apply. She does not ask the court to change society, but for the law to keep up with societal changes that have already taken place. To a judge’s objection that the Constitution does not contain the word “woman”, she responds vigorously that neither does it contain the word “freedom”.. Outside the courthouse, judgment being reserved, Wulf, Moritz, and the Ginsburgs celebrate that, win or lose, Ruth has finally found her voice as a lawyer. Titles over the closing scene indicate that the Court of Appeals found unanimously in Moritz’s favor. Ruth went on to co-found the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU, which struck down many of the sex-based laws Bozarth identified, and in 1993 the Senate voted 96 to 3 for her to become an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The final scene shows the real-life Ginsburg walking up the steps of the Supreme Court building.
37 min – (jane – daughter): gloria says we need to unlearn the status quo.. it’s not a movement if everyone is just sitting.. that’s a support group
52 min – martin: or maybe you just say that because no one has been successfully able to do it before
pluralistic ignorance et al viawhalespeak
58 min – dorothy: you think you can change the country..look to her gen.. taking the streets.. ruth: protests are important but changing the culture means nothing if the law doesn’t change .. as a lawyer you must know that.. dorothy: let me guess.. you’re a professor aren’t you.. ton of knowledge and no smarts.. you want advice.. tell your client she won’t find equality in a court room.. sorry but country isn’t ready.. change minds first then change the law
need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit need
1:00 – jane: just because you lost 100 yrs before you started is no reason not to try to win – adicus finch said it first
graeber make it diff law.. graeber rethink law.. et al
jane: mom.. you can’t let boys talk to you like that.. ruth: look at you jane.. you’re a liberated, fearless young woman.. dorothy is wrong.. the times have already changed
no legit change to date.. all same song
and/but.. today.. have means to speed up that process.. to stop all the whac-a-mole-ing ness.. like vicki saying healing takes time.. yes.. but have means now.. beyond 2 wks w/surgery vs 6 wks w/o.. to hasten that healing.. more holistic and more ai ish combined.. so huge to have ie: v/h on holistic focus on body and g/s focus on mind
1:40 – judge: in most households.. aren’t men the bread winners and women the caregivers .. ruth: in most households yes.. judge: doesn’t that reality suggest that that’s the natural order of things
whalespeak.. black science of people/whales law
1:50 – ruth: we’re not asking you to change the country.. that’s already happened w/o any courts permission.. we’re asking you to protect the right of the country to change.. our sons/daughters are barred by law from opportunities based on assumptions about their abilities.. how will they ever disprove these assumptions if laws like 2.14 are allowed to stand.. we all must take these laws on *one by one for as long as it takes for their sakes
*cancerous distraction..
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p
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