Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares Her #MeToo Moment

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 84-year-old Supreme Court justice known for her boldness, spoke Sunday about a moment in college when she was put in a difficult position as a young student at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, NBC News reported. Ginsburg described a confrontation she had with a instructor at Cornell University on a panel about the premiere of “RBG,” a documentary about her life, when she was asked about the #MeToo movement.”It’s about time. For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it, but now the law is on the side of women, or men, who encounter harassment, and that’s a good thing,” she told the panel.Ginsburg, would go on to become a nationally recognized women’s rights lawyer and then the second woman ever appointed to the nation’s highest court.Photo Credit: Getty Images/Robin Marchant
Source: NBC San Diego