--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Fixed Justice League With Ruth Bader Ginsburg description: The late night host has a recommendation for a new superhero to add to the pantheon — and she already exists in real life. canonical: https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-17T16:54:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:52.456Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Fixed Justice League With a New Kind of Hero og:description: "Supreme Court Justice League" is here to save us all og:url: https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Fixed Justice League With a New Kind of Hero twitter:description: "Supreme Court Justice League" is here to save us all twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Fixed _Justice League_ With a New Kind of Hero > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=af9dd177-dbf2-41f4-a775-056f51e64b89&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 17, 2017 4:54 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 17, 2017 4:54 PM UTC On Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel, the comedian riffed on the new DC comics movie[ _Justice League_](http://time.com/5026138/justice-league-review/). While the reviews about the superhero-stuffed film [have been tepid](http://time.com/5026138/justice-league-review/), it’s still poised to be a major blockbuster success; at this point, anything with Wonder Woman seems to draw the crowds. But Kimmel also had a suggestion on how to make the action movie even more epic: add in another hero. She’s the hero we all need, and she’s the hero that currently wields power in one of the highest offices of our land. She’s Supreme Court Justice [Ruth Bader Ginsburg](http://time.com/4958761/ruth-bader-ginsburg-sexism-election/), of course. In a parody trailer for Kimmel’s “Supreme Court Justice League,” he threw in suggestions on how Ginsburg would flex her skills in fighting evil. “What are your superpowers again?” asks Ezra Miller’s The Flash in the clip. “It helps sometimes to be a little hard of hearing,” is Ginsburg’s appropriate response. And like[ Thor](http://time.com/5020920/thor-weekend-box-office/) of the Marvel universe, Ginsburg has a special weapon that presumably only she can hold. It’s a gavel, naturally. The tagline for the spoof: “Justice League: You can’t handle the Ruth.” While in reality Ginsburg may not be a star of a superhero movie, she is known to stick [to a strict fitness and health regiment](http://time.com/4804007/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-workout-book/), keeping her sharp even in her 80s after 24 years serving on the bench. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Fixed Justice League With a New Kind of Hero","datePublished":"2017-11-17T16:54:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:52.456Z","description":"\"Supreme Court Justice League\" is here to save us all","url":"https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Jimmy Kimmel","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5029263/supreme-court-justice-league/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Fixed Justice League With a New Kind of Hero"}}]}] ```