"Don't try and pull the wool over my eyes," Judge Judy says. (This is Judith Sheindlin, the New York City family court judge who later became a daytime TV star in the same jurisdiction.) "I'm smarter than you."
While her tone might be different -- there would be no self-deprecating humour in it, only her patented scorn and contempt for opponents -- Canada's newly-appointed Supreme Court justice Rosalie Abella might adopt this as her own judicial motto. She is an embodiment of a class of people who genuinely believe themselves to be smarter than the rest of us, to be ahead on the historical curve. So far ahead, and moving so fast, that they cannot even hear the patter of the people running to keep up with them.
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