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Which historical legal figure did Waterston portray in "On the Basis of Sex"?

  • Thurgood Marshall

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  • William Brennan

  • Erwin Griswold

Answer

Erwin Griswold was portrayed by Waterston in "On the Basis of Sex". Griswold was a Solicitor General of the United States and argued against Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Supreme Court case United States v. Virginia.
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