Stench Quotes

“Even after the Politico leak, polls showed women didn’t believe their right to abortion would be taken away. It was not reasonable to think all five justices committed perjury. But that’s exactly what happened.”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America

“Democratic senator Dick Durbin of Illinois in 2006 memorably called Kavanaugh “the Forrest Gump of Republican politics.” In the eventual hearing, Durbin and other senators accused Kavanaugh of lying to the Judiciary Committee when he denied his involvement in formulating the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies while he was on the White House staff. Memos later surfaced proving that, yes indeed, Kavanaugh lied to get confirmed. It wouldn’t be the last time.”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America

“Anschutz holdings are vast, including oil and gas, fossil fuel extraction, and real estate. His ties to Gorsuch date from the 1990s, when Gorsuch was his lawyer. According to The New York Times, Gorsuch is a “semi-regular” speaker at a policy conference sponsored by Anschutz at a ranch in Colorado. And Gorsuch had a real estate investment with two top Anschutz deputies, the sale of which Gorsuch failed to disclose as required by law.”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America

“Gorsuch misleadingly told Dianne Feinstein that he would respect the precedent of Roe. Clearly coached to dissemble by emphasizing his belief in the “value” of precedent, he told her: “Part of the value of precedent, it has lots of value. It has”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America

“The two men got down to business, and made a deal that would pay off for both: Trump would outsource—lock, stock, and barrel—his naming of Supreme Court justices and other judicial appointments to Leo, and Leo would vouch for him with the Religious Right and his army of rich donors and right-wing lawyers. The”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America

“For McConnell, the ends justified the means. In a 2016 speech, he declared, “One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.’ ” Two years later, as the Thomas Court was taking shape with two new Trump-appointed justices, McConnell said the decision not to act upon the Garland nomination was “the most consequential decision I made in my entire career.”
― David Brock, Stench: The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America