A young Ruth Bader Ginsburg declares the word “freedom” isn’t in the U.S. Constitution in a movie coming out on her rise to the Supreme Court. The trailer for the biopic highlights the factually challenged zinger.
“The word woman does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution,” a judge tells Ginsburg, played by actress Felicity Jones.
She replies, “Nor does the word freedom, your honor.”
That’s right. Apparently the amendments got lost somewhere? The wild claim is in the trailer, below.
The word “freedom” doesn’t appear in the 1st amendment?
I need to go back to school.
No wonder the left loves her.
Senility strikes again. She must have pelositus.
Leftist propaganda.
If you don’t read the Constitution, the Left will gladly read their version of it to you… while tearing down everything that America stands for! History is not found in the Movie theater. Read an old book, before the Left burns them. That’s why I kept my Dad’s collection of American Heritage books.
This from the same kids who can’t find America on a map!
One word, however, that does not appear anywhere in the constitution is “privacy”, yet evil Marxist eugenicists like Ginsberg used it to create the constitutional right to kill inconvenient children.
Another leftist propaganda flop.
Keep wasting your money fools!
Back in the day before the internet they may have gotten away with this. Now they can be exposed for the phony liars they are.
1) Felicity Jones is way too good looking to play RBG.
2) Clearly that, and the obvious factual error noted above, plus the disclaimer “inspired by a true story” means we are looking at another work of pure fiction along the lines of Obama’s autobiography “Dreams of my Father.”
Does Liberty count?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
She should read it sometime.
Maybe she just misunderstood what Ben Franklin told her in Philly.
A good rejoinder to the ignorant collectivists who don’t know (or maybe care) that “freedom” does indeed appear would be to observe that an important word that does indeed NOT appear is “democracy”.
The left is always changing the game. Take for instance “democracy”. Once defined as “mob rule” in the older dictionaries.
@Racer X:
Looking at her today, it’s hard to imagine that she was reasonably good looking as a young woman. Here she is in 1953 when she was at Cornell.
Maybe a lifetime of bitterness drains away whatever measure of beauty you were blessed with in youth.
Saw that silly trailer a few days ago. First thought was they aren’t very good at comedy. They played the scene way to seriously.
Second thought was two recommendations :
https://lp.hillsdale.edu/constitution-course-huckabee/ .
https://online.hillsdale.edu/course/con101/schedule .
Oh Ruthie, You have confused it with the “Torah” again.
Evidently she doesn’t know what “The freedoms of self evidence” means in the Declaration Of Independence either.
Freedom. So the First Amendment isn’t part of her Constitution? Maybe that’s the part she thought was “deeply flawed.”
The screenwriter was obviously reading the “Saul Alinsky” version of the Constitution……
Just like the movie says that it’s “based” on the life of the crone, it’s also “based” on the Constitution.
The function of the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of Federal laws is not expressly in the Constitution either. This function was enunciated in Marbury vs. Madison.
Did Ginsburg dictate this story after she woke up from being passed out drunk at the State of the Union?
(Which is a long standing habit, btw…)
Had the Constitution even been written when she was young?
Sounds like somebody turned a bumper sticker into dialogue. Or recycled “Law & Order” dialogue from a decade ago, which was based on a bumper sticker.
“Judge Ginsburg, you have quite a reputation for controversy. Doesn’t that concern you?”
“Not at all, young man. Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Another POS excreted from the creatively dead anus of Hollywood.
And I am glad to say I won’t be wasting my time, money, or eyesight on it now or ever.
@Blink, you said
“Maybe a lifetime of bitterness drains away whatever measure of beauty you were blessed with in youth.”
Confirmation of that great wise trope:
“Your abilities and talent are God’s gifts to you. What you do with them, are your gift back to God.”
Ruthie, and every other myopic, miserable leftist, are basically INGRATES on a huge scale.
That statement is so insane and wrong on so many levels, that its mere utterance renders the speaker immediately a candidate for forced mental institutionalization.
Where in the Constitution are the references to killing unborn babies and referring toqueers hooking up as marriage?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_zWl8xnT00
“Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the *=>freedom<=* of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Pretty sure the 1A is part of the US constitution. Ever notice that Hollywood regularly scams the public into believing we live under a different set of laws than we actually do? I was watching a show called "Longmire" about a sheriff in Wyoming, and the characters are talking about "gun licenses". There is no such fucking thing as a "gun license" in most US states, if any. You don't need a license to own a goddamn gun. But Hollywood will pull out that tired claim in every fucking cop show.
sure she means in the parts she likes, the rest is not relevant to today.