Justin Theroux talks On The Basis Of Sex and the politics of the Supreme Court
Film Features Interview
The new biographical drama On The Basis Of Sex follows the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career as a lawyer, from teaching at Rutgers Law School to founding the Women’s Rights Project. In the film, Justin Theroux co-stars as Mel Wulf, the legal director of the ACLU and an early colleague of Ginsburg’s. In honor of the film’s wide release, we spoke with Theroux about the film, and the complicated politics of the Supreme Court.
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Wait a sec…the statement “Justin Theroux still believes in the idea of a supreme court”. Still? Are there people who don’t believe the Supreme Court should be an “idea”? Am I missing something?And whenever someone decides to do an Alan Alda biopic, Justin Theroux needs to get that part.
I believe in the idea of the Supreme Court, and the idea that we shouldn’t have auto-playing videos.
Bill Hader!
After reading about the Supreme Court for years, and knowing its record of decisions, I disagree that it has merit and that its justices are particularly intelligent. It’s not brilliant to use constitutional legalese to uphold laws that harm people or invalidate laws that help them. The Supreme Court not deciding on the outcome of the policies or whether they redress a harm, but instead the judges just following their political views regardless of how they affect others is nuts. As is 9 unelected, serving for life, people deciding laws that impact all of us.