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THE DISTRICT

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OBITUARIES

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BY KATHERINE SHAVER

On a recent weekday afternoon at Northern

Virginia’s Mosaic District, a nail salon was

two-thirds full, diners in business casual were

clustered around sidewalk tables, and remote

workers tapped on laptops beneath an out-

door tent equipped with power outlets and

high-speed WiFi.

In Leesburg, m idday customers at a new

golf simulator business scroll through emails

and take business calls between swings. In

North Bethesda, Zoom breaks take place at a

dog park “social club” steps from trendy

eateries and shops. Elsewhere, suburban

shopping centers are adding WiFi to new

outdoor plazas and, in at least one case, a

bocce ball court.

While central business districts like down-

town Washington continue to struggle as

more than half of office workers stay away,

many suburbs have rebounded by courting

suburbanites who have settled in after more

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Suburbs cater to the laptop crowd

As workers continue to avoid downtown offices, developers eye their extra time and money

KATHERINE SHAVER/THE WASHINGTON POST

TOP: Consultant Hailey Quigley, 26, left, and graphic designer Rory Shinnick, 24, meet up most days to work remotely together from the

Mosaic District, a shopping and restaurant development in Fairfax County. ABOVE: Jud and Jane Wollard, both 58, of Silver Spring,

spend time with their dog, Murphy, at Bark Social, a dog park and eatery in North Bethesda that also offers high-speed WiFi.

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BY LAUREN LUMPKIN

Days after a Georgetown Uni-

versity Law School administrator

was reinstated following a

months-long investigation into

his tweets, he said he has re-

signed.

Ilya Shapiro, who was hired to

lead the law school’s Center for

the Constitution starting in Feb-

ruary, said Monday in a resigna-

tion letter that remaining at the

university “has become unten-

able.” He accused law school offi-

cials of creating a hostile environ-

ment for him because of his politi-

cal views.

Shortly before his start date,

Shapiro came under fire for

tweets about President Biden’s

promise to nominate a Black

woman for the Supreme Court.

The posts — for which he apolo-

gized the next day — included a

tweet that suggested Biden nomi-

nate the chief judge of the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the District

of Columbia Circuit instead. “But

alas doesn’t fit into the latest

intersectionality hierarchy so

we’ll get lesser black woman,”

Shapiro tweeted. “Thank heaven

for small favors?”

His posts prompted accusa-

tions of racism. Organizations,

including Georgetown’s Black

Law Students Association, re-

peatedly called for Shapiro’s ter-

mination.

William M. Treanor, the law

school’s dean, said in a statement

on Jan. 27 that Shapiro’s sugges-

tion that a Black woman could

not be the best nominee, along

with his use of “demeaning lan-

guage,” was “appalling.”

Treanor placed Shapiro on

paid administrative leave pend-

ing investigations led by the law

school’s offices of human re -

sources and institutional diversi-

ty, equity and affirmative action.

Before his Georgetown appoint-

ment, Shapiro worked at the Cato

Institute as the vice president and

director of the Robert A. Levy

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Sidelined administrator

at Georgetown resigns

Law school official, after

tweets probe clears him,

c ites toxic environment

BY MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLER

AND JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL

When Eric Jones sees neigh-

bors who still have signs in their

yards supporting Kenyan R.

McDuffie for the District’s next

attorney general — even though

the former candidate was dis-

qualified from running weeks

ago — he stops to talk.

“We’re having these same con-

versations: What do you do

now?” Jones said. “Because folks

really don’t know.”

Jones, who advocates for the

interests of landlords and prop-

erty owners as a vice president of

the Apartment and Office Build-

ing Association, thought

McDuffie would be the best

choice to replace outgoing Attor-

ney General Karl A. Racine (D).

But that was before McDuffie,

a Ward 5 council member who

had been the top fundraiser in

the attorney general’s race, was

deemed ineligible to run by the

D.C. Board of Elections after

another candidate filed a chal-

lenge against him.

Yet McDuffie’s presence has

loomed over the contest despite

his absence, and with just weeks

to go until the June 21 Democrat-

ic primary, his supporters have

struggled to discern which of the

remaining candidates — Brian

Schwalb, Ryan Jones or Bruce V.

Spiva — should be their second

choice.

Some voters say the three

men’s platforms and policies are

so similar that it’s hard to decide

among them; others, such as

Christopher Macchiaroli, say

they are simply refusing to vote

after McDuffie’s exit.

“I am not going to be forced to

consider candidates who I ulti-

mately did not support,” said

Macchiaroli, a law firm partner

and former D.C. prosecutor. “I

backed one horse and I’m staying

with that horse.”

Longtime Brookland activist

Verna Clayborne said some of

McDuffie’s supporters may be

waiting for him to endorse; in

mid-May, when he endorsed

Faith Gibson Hubbard as his

successor in Ward 5, McDuffie

did not rule out backing a candi-

date in another race.

In an interview Wednesday,

McDuffie said each of the re-

maining attorney general candi-

dates asked for his endorsement

in the past few weeks, although

he hasn’t decided whether he’ll

endorse in the race or whom to

back. Jones says he’s sought out

McDuffie’s endorsement for

more than a year and tried to do

so again recently; spokespeople

for Schwalb and Spiva said they

have also had recent conversa-

tions with McDuffie, seeking

both his support and to tap into

his knowledge of the community.

“A lot of people who wanted to

vote for me, their emotions are

ranging from being upset, to

disappointed, to really unsure

about how to move forward,”

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In city’s AG race, who stands apart?

With McDuffie out, some voters see remaining candidates as all but identical

“What is the

difference between

you and your

opponents?”

An exasperated moderator,

questioning Democratic D.C. attorney

general hopefuls at a debate hosted

by the D.C. Bar last month

BY SPENCER S. HSU,

RACHEL WEINER

AND TOM JACKMAN

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the for-

mer longtime chairman of the ex-

tremist group Proud Boys, was

indicted on a new federal charge

of seditious conspiracy with four

top lieutenants on Monday. The

charges expand the Justice De-

partment’s allegations of orga-

nized plotting to oppose through

violence the certification of Presi-

dent Biden’s election victory, cul-

minating in the attack on the Capi-

tol by a mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

Tarrio, 38, was not in the Dis-

trict that day but allegedly guided

activities from nearby Baltimore

as Proud Boys members engaged

in the earliest and most aggressive

attacks to confront and over-

whelm police at several critical

points on restricted Capitol

grounds. Another defendant,

Dominic Pezzola o f Rochester,

N.Y., broke through the first win-

dow of the building at 2:13 p.m.

with a stolen police riot shield,

authorities said.

A 10-count superseding indict-

ment returned Monday morning

charges Tarrio, Pezzola and three

other existing defendants —

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Proud

Boys

leader

indicted

TARRIO, 4 OTHERS

FACE RARE CHARGE

Accused of seditious

conspiracy in J an. 6 riot

BY ERIN COX

In the lone televised debate of

Maryland’s highly competitive

Democratic primary, eight men

running to be the state’s next

governor jockeyed to be the par-

ty’s standard-bearer on Monday,

pointing to crime, education and

the economy as the chief voter

concerns.

But the one-hour debate also

featured nuanced distinctions on

how far the successor to term-

limited Gov. Larry Hogan (R)

should go to address income

inequality, child care and the

yawning academic, financial and

mental health gaps wrought by

the pandemic.

The Maryland Public Televi-

sion-WBAL debate also featured

the most pointed jabs yet among

the perceived front-runners in

the wide-open July 19 contest,

with sparring over big policy

issues and the candidates’ per-

sonal records.

Former U.S. Labor secretary

Tom Perez accused Maryland

Comptroller Peter Franchot —

who has high name recognition

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Maryland

D emocrats

joust in a

TV debate

Gubernatorial hopefuls

pitch plans on crime,

education and economy