Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.

It's been a minute.

On today's show, we are talking about the documentary, RBG.

It's all about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

We talked to Betsy West and Julie Cohen, the two directors behind the film.

We also talked to NPR's very own Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg because she

knows a lot about the Supreme Court and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, so much so that she was also

in the movie.

This film covers a lot.

RBG's entire life, growing up in New York, being one of the first female students at Harvard

Law School working on women's rights cases with the ACLU back in the 70s, and arguing cases

in front of the Supreme Court back then six times.

Female citizens of Louisiana are denied equal protection by the total absence of their peers

from the jury.

I thought the new theory was that there's very little difference between men and women,

so why wouldn't the men jury be there?

Well, I'm not aware of that new theory.

The film also talks about Ruth Bader Ginsburg now, and how even at 85 years old, she is

still working till two or three in the morning.

She's still going out to late night dinners after the opera.

For me, the most poignant parts of this film are these discussions about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's

50-plus year marriage to the late Marty Ginsburg.

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