“A brief that will get me fired,” she said. “But also, maybe, a better world.”
, the film illustrates how a single, seemingly obscure tax case— Moritz v. Commissioner on the basis of sexhd
Despite graduating at the top of her class, she couldn't find a law firm willing to hire a woman, leading her to become a professor at Rutgers Law School . On the Basis of SexHD — A Review
The typo “sexhd” is fitting. It merges and HD —the subject and the medium. To watch On the Basis of Sex in high definition is to see the granular reality of legal battles: the sweat on a lawyer’s brow, the faded ink of a 1972 federal register, the glint of RBG’s infamous jabot. sex The typo “sexhd” is fitting
“Ms. Vasquez,” said the chief judge, “you’re asking us to declare that every law distinguishing on the basis of sex is suspect. That’s a radical proposition.”