There’s a story of a lawyer who would bury a straight pin in his cigar, trapping the ash. He would puff away before the jury as his opponent questioned a witness or made his argument. The jury watched the cigar, waiting for the ash to fall, wondering why it didn’t.Why did Antonin Scalia smoke a pipe during his 1986 #SCOTUS hearing?
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 13, 2020
He told C-SPAN in 2015:
"Whenever I wanted to distract attention, all I had to do was stick the pipe in my mouth and puff on it and you would hear all the cameras go click click click click click click click" pic.twitter.com/QS51hQkn34
We fall for the same tricks over and over.
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