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What We Leave Behind
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Mistaken Alliances What We Leave Behind
The Georgetown apartment happened.It was not the brownstone. It was not meant to be. It was a place for the Washington version of the life we had built in New York, with a kitchen that worked and a study that Kade had claimed on the first weekend and a second bedroom that the children could use when they came.Oliver came first.He stayed for a week in October and painted the Georgetown streets at different times of day, producing a series that he described as a study in the same place seen differently depending on when you stood in it.Nora came for a long weekend and spent most of it at my chambers reviewing the fifth paper's latest section with Josephine and coming home each evening with the particular energized tiredness of someone who had been doing exactly the right kind of work.James came at Christmas and brought his bridge drawings and the preliminary designs for a second commission, a pedestrian crossing for a greenway project in Brooklyn that the parks department had appro
Mistaken Alliances The Long Game
The Harrison decision came in May.Six to three.The majority held that the adequacy standard required the outcome in the Harrison case. That a caseload of two hundred and seventy cases was not compatible with the constitutional standard of adequate representation. That Harrison's conviction had been impacted by the inadequacy and was subject to review.Six to three was stronger than the original adequacy decision.I had written a concurring opinion.The Chief Justice had assigned me to write the majority opinion. I had produced it. But I had also written a concurrence that was separate from the majority, a personal statement of the constitutional argument that had produced this result. It was the most direct statement of the access framework in the court's history. It traced the argument from its foundation through the papers and the circuit decisions to this moment.It was twenty-three pages and it was the clearest statement I had ever made of what I believed about equal protection
Mistaken Alliances The Case That Tested Everything
The Michigan case was called Harrison v Michigan Department of Corrections.A man named Darnell Harrison had been convicted seven years ago. His public defender had carried two hundred and seventy cases that year. The specific inadequacy was documented. The connection to the outcome was arguable.I read the cert petition on my first weekend.Then I called Clara into my office on Monday morning and closed the door."We cannot work on this case together," I said."I know," she said."The adequacy standard," I said. "I built it. You built the core of it. The court will scrutinize our relationship to this case more closely than any other.""I know," she said."Your work as my clerk cannot touch this case," I said."Agreed," she said."But I need to know one thing," I said."Tell me," she said."The seam in the adequacy argument," I said. "Is there anything in the Harrison case that touches the seam?"She looked at me."You are asking me to review the case against the seam before we separa
Mistaken Alliances The Oath
The oath was taken in the Supreme Court chamber on a Thursday morning in November.The chamber was full. The family was there. Kade in the front row, James beside him, Nora beside James, Oliver on the end with the particular stillness he brought to significant rooms.Eloise was in the row behind them. Killian and Elena were there. Rosa sat between them with the gravity of a ten-year-old who understood something large was happening.Cruz was there. He had come from Brooklyn because the case was his Brooklyn case arrived at its final form. He sat in the gallery with Dani beside him.Park was there. Burch had driven from Columbus again.Clara and Priya and Josephine and David were there. The whole research team in one row of the gallery.Patricia Holt was there.The Chief Justice administered the oath.I placed my hand on the Constitution and said the words I had been reading and arguing and building arguments around for twenty years.Do solemnly swear that I will administer justice with
Mistaken Alliances The Argument That Endured
The Judiciary Committee hearings were in October.Four days. I had prepared for four months, which was the only way to prepare for four days of Senate questioning about every legal opinion and every piece of scholarship and every personal decision I had made in my professional life.Day one was the opposition doing what the opposition did. Senator after senator asking questions designed to make me either defend my record in a way that looked defensive or abandon it in a way that looked dishonest.I did neither.I stated the record clearly. The access argument, the adequacy standard, the retroactivity principle. I stated the constitutional framework and the cases that had tested it. I stated that I believed the Constitution meant what it said about equal protection and procedural due process and that my scholarship had been aimed at making that belief actionable in law.I stated the Killian situation in the same terms I had always stated it. A mistake made before I was part of the Cart
Mistaken Alliances The Record Speaks
The nomination was announced on a Monday.I was in Washington with Kade. The announcement came from the White House briefing room and I watched it from a room down the hall where a White House aide told me the process would now begin.The process was exactly as difficult as everyone had predicted and nothing I had not already lived through in a different form.The opposition research arrived in media the following week. The Killian story, framed as recklessly as anyone could frame it. The Carter Group corporate connection. The access legislation as a conflict of interest. The twins as a distraction from the constitutional record. Every piece of ammunition that had ever been used against me in twenty years of public life was fired again in a compressed and concentrated way.I had prepared for this.Kade had prepared for this.The statement we released was four paragraphs. It addressed the Killian situation directly in the same language we had used fifteen years ago in the Finance Chron
Mistaken Alliances Trapped by the Carters
I woke up the next morning to my head splitting in two from a migraine. I groaned and pushed myself off the bed, dreading the work day ahead of me already. After that dinner with Killian and Kade, well, the train wreck I barely survived, I had headed home and forced myself to go to bed. Unfortunate
Mistaken Alliances A Pawn in Their Game
"Who's dating Killian?"I knew who spoke before I saw his face. That voice was unmistakable. I pulled away from Killian and turned to come face to face with Kade. His gray eyes landed on me and he made a face, like he had seen me somewhere before but couldn't quite place his finger on it.I stayed
Mistaken Alliances The Girlfriend Lie
It took an entire bottle of bourbon to make me forget what I had done days ago and an entire barrage of messages from Killian to bring me back to reality. I grimaced at my phone screen when another text from him popped up. This was his fifteenth one in three days and even after I blocked him, Killi
Mistaken Alliances The Wrong Carter
The room was quiet except for the sound of our uneven breathing. My mind and body drained from the wave of pleasure and ecstasy I had just come down from. I knew that Kade Carter was an amazing man but I had no idea that he was an amazing lover as well."God, you're amazing." The man of my dreams m
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