That time Ruth Bader Ginsburg checked out Armie Hammer

Did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg kind of . . . check out actor Armie Hammer while he was researching his part as her husband in the biopic “On the Basis of Sex?” That’s what the film’s star, Felicity Jones, more than implied while walking the red carpet at Tuesday night’s screening at the National Archives. Jones, who morphed her own British accent into the SCOTUS-sitter’s distinct Brooklyn patois onscreen, noticed Ginsburg’s reaction to her co-star when the pair met her in her chambers. Jones spoke of Ginsburg as a living legend and “national treasure” but felt a distinctly more down-to-earth vibe when the 85-year-old caught sight of the man playing her late spouse, Marty Ginsburg. “What was lovely was to see her eyes light up when she met Armie Hammer,” Jones said with a laugh. “I knew in that moment that she was a human being.” Ginsburg herself was in the house for the screening, among a very Washington audience that included a good chunk of the D.C. bar and a gaggle of female lawmakers, including Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) and Pennsylvania Democratic Reps. Mary Scanlon and Susan Wild