Justice Sonya Sotomayor's objection to the “stench” of politics in the oral argument in Dobbs seemed directed at her three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Wade...jonathanturley.org/2021/12/05/big…
...Of course, when justices begin to declare their disgust at the very thought of overturning precedent, there is another detectable scent in the courtroom. Indeed, it felt like a scene from Tennessee Williams' play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” ...
...The only thing missing was the play’s central character, “Big Daddy” Pollitt, asking: “What's that smell in this room? … Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity.””
...That is the problem with both politics and mendacity: They are a stench that one tends to smell only in others — and tends to be more pungent when one is in dissent.
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