The New Yorker - 18.11.2019

38 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 had served as a special counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she helped Joe Bi ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 39 •• echo of the 1991 confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas, who had been accused ...

“I love how fall hides the garbage.” President, she doesn’t discuss them pub- licly, but the friend recalled Kagan say- ing, in ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 41 isfying narrative, incorporating differ- ent strands of explanation and event. Like any his ...

42 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 LOVE AND DREAD A desiccated daffodil. A pigeon cooing on the sill. The old cat lives on lo ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 43 for imposing limitations on corporate political spending, on the ground that it was suppres ...

44 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 Stevens—a common-law judge who takes each case as it comes to her. She’s sort of a judge’s ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 45 complish this, and rehearsing various combinations of votes. In the end, he joined the four ...

46 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 forbids all religious symbolism or ex- pression in the public square—her at- titude is mor ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 47 can”—as in last term’s partisan-gerry- mandering case. Kagan has written righ- teously angr ...

“And here are those family photos you thought you lost in the cloud.” congressional districts. Both opinions cited Kagan’s disse ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 49 in addition to the L.G.B.T.-discrimination cases, the Court will be weighing in on the Trum ...

50 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 In the wake of the 737 MAX disasters, caused by a software feature, Boeing and regulators ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 51 lame on the planes’ pilots. Then the Stumo family, who lost their daughter, got involved. “ ...

52 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 S amya Stumo liked to ride pigs. This was on her family’s farm, in Sheffield, Massachusett ...

At the first school-board meeting I cov- ered, Michael arrived late from Hart- ford. He was wearing a suit that hung loosely on ...

54 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 Since their daughter died, Michael Stumo and Nadia Mille its shares with a precision that ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 55 umo and Nadia Milleron have made more than a dozen trips to Washington. They are the first ...

56 THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 millions of Americans.” Ronald Rea- gan, elected in 1980, mocked what he considered to be ...

THENEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 57 The next day, the same plane, with a hundred and eighty-one passengers and a new crew, took ...